Daniel Merrick
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Daniel Merrick
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Daniel Merrick was a British trade unionist. Born in Leicester, Merrick was educated at St Margaret's Charity School, then worked making stockings. He first came to prominence in the late 1840s, as a supporter of the Chartist movement. In 1858, he founded the Sock and Top Union, a small union representing framework knitters. Around this time, he became involved in a co-operative which Thomas Cook established to sell food, in Humberstone Gate. This proved short-lived, but from 1869 he was a leadi
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British trade unionist
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