Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

Emanuel Shinwell, Baron Shinwell, CH, PC , known informally as Manny Shinwell, was a British trade union official, Labour politician and one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside.

Shinwell was born in Spitalfields, London, but his family moved to Glasgow, Scotland. His father was a Polish Jew who had a small clothing shop and his mother, a Dutch Jew, was a cook from London. He educated himself in a public library and at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. He enjoyed sport, particularly boxing, and he was the trainer of a local football team. He began his working life as a machinist in a clothing workshop. In 1903 he became active in the Amalgamated Union of Clothing Operatives, and joined the Glasgow Trades Council in 1906 as a delegate of that union.

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