Evans, Moss

Evans, Moss
▪ 2003
Arthur Mostyn Evans 
      British trade unionist (b. July 13, 1925, Cefn Coed, Glamorgan, Wales—d. Jan. 12, 2002, Heacham, Norfolk, Eng.), was elected general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union in 1978, just before the “winter of discontent,” a period of strikes and other labour troubles that disrupted Britain and led to the fall of Prime Minister James Callaghan's Labour Party government in May 1979. Evans, a lifelong socialist, was also a representative on the General Council of the Trades Union Congress from 1977. He retired from both posts in 1985.

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