Tom O'Brien (trade unionist)

Thomas O'Brien^[1] (17 August 1900 – 5 May 1970) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician, and a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1945 to 1959.

He was elected at the 1945 general election as MP for Nottingham West, and after that constituency's abolition in boundary changes, he was re-elected at the 1950 general election for the new Nottingham North West seat. That constituency was in turn abolished for the 1955 general election, when he was returned to the House of Commons for the re-established Nottingham West seat.

O'Brien was General Secretary of the National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees from 1932 until his death, and a member of the TUC's International Committee.^[2]

Quotations

"[Britons] would rather take the risk of civilizing communism than being kicked around by the unlettered pot-bellied money magnates of the United States" (quoted by The New York Times, August 23, 1949, p. 4.^[3]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Arthur Hayday	Member of Parliament for Nottingham West 1945–1950	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Nottingham North West 1950–1955	Constituency abolished
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Nottingham West 1955–1959	Succeeded by Sir Peter Tapsell
Trade union offices
Preceded by John Brown and Arthur Horner	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1946 With: Sam Watson	Succeeded by Arthur Deakin and Robert Openshaw
Preceded by Arthur Deakin	President of the Trades Union Congress 1953	Succeeded by Jack Tanner

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