Stoker Edwards
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title:
Stoker Edwards
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Walter James Edwards, known as Stoker Edwards or Wally Edwards, was a British Labour Party politician. Edwards was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London. He briefly worked as a carman from 1917 and in 1918 enlisted in the Royal Navy as a stoker and served until 1923. He then became a docker. He joined the Labour Party and the Transport and General Workers' Union and in 1937 was appointed a full-time officer with the union's Docks Group. From 1935 to 1939 he was chairman of the Whitechap
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British politician (1900–1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoker_Edwards
date created:
2006-08-13T13:15:19Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T13:53:24Z
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