James Henry Thomas

James Henry Thomas , sometimes known as Jimmy Thomas, was a British trade unionist and Labour politician. He was involved in a political scandal involving budget leaks.

Thomas was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, the son of a young unmarried mother. He was raised by his grandmother and began work at twelve years of age, soon starting a career as a railway worker. He became an official of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and in 1913 helped to organise its merger with two smaller trade unions on the railways to form the National Union of Railwaymen . Thomas was elected NUR general secretary in 1916, a post he held until 1931.

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