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Eddie Marsden

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Edwin Marsden (26 April 1913^[1] – 30 August 1975) was a British trade unionist and communist activist.

Born in the Openshaw area of Manchester,^[2] Marsden trained as a draughtsman but instead became a steel erector.^[3]

In 1935, Marsden joined the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), radicalised in opposition to the Italian invasion of Abyssinia.^[4] He also joined the Constructional Engineering Union, serving as a site steward for more than thirty years.^[3]

In 1952, Marsden was elected to the executive of the union, representing North West England,^[2] and in 1962 he became the union's full-time organiser for the region,^[5] also representing the union on the executive of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions.^[2] Meanwhile, he became increasingly prominent in the CPGB, serving on its Lancashire and Cheshire District Committee,^[2] and standing unsuccessfully for the party in the Manchester Openshaw by-election, 1963, and again in the seat in the 1964 and 1966 UK general elections.^[6] In 1968, he was elected to the party's Executive Committee.^[2]

Marsden was elected as general secretary of the union in 1968.^[3] Three years later it became part of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, albeit remaining largely autonomous, with Marsden continuing as general secretary of the union's new Construction section.^[7] This gave Marsden increased prominence in the trade union movement, and he was a prominent figure at meetings of the Trades Union Congress.^[2]

Marsden died in 1975, still in office.^[3]

References

1. ^England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵Graham Stevenson, "Marsden Eddie", Compendium of Communist Biography
3. ^¹²³Trades Union Congress, "Obituary: Eddie Marsden", Annual Report of the 1975 Trades Union Congress
4. ^New Society, Vol.27, p.120
5. ^Robert Taylor, The Fifth Estate: Britain's Unions in the Seventies, p.83
6. ^F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1950–1973
7. ^{{cite book|last1=Exton|first1=Jack|last2=Gill|first2=Colin|title=The Trade Union Directory|year=1981|publisher=Pluto Press|location=London|pages=92–95}}

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5 : 1913 births|1975 deaths|Communist Party of Great Britain members|General Secretaries of the Amalgamated Engineering Union|People from Manchester

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