Pritchard, William Arthur

PRITCHARD, William Arthur, labour leader (b 1889, Salford, England; d 24 Oct 1981, Los Angeles). After arriving in VANCOUVER in 1911 he became head of the Longshoremen's Union and an activist in the Socialist Party of Canada. At the Western Labour Conference in Calgary in 1919 he was a member of the committee set up to organize the One Big Union. He visited Winnipeg during the 1919 general strike and was arrested on his way back to Vancouver. Convicted of seditious conspiracy for his part in...

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