| 词条 | Walter Smith (British politician) |
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Early careerSmith was president of the Norwich Union of Clickers and Roughstuff Cutters in 1893, and when that organisation was merged in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives in 1894, Smith became the part-time president of the Norwich branch, a position he held until his election as national organiser in 1916. He was member of Norwich City Council and honorary president of the National Union of Agricultural Workers from 1911 to 1923.[3] He also served as president of Norwich Trades Council from 1904 until 1917, and was the first president of the International Landworkers' Federation.[4] Political careerSmith was the first Labour MP who was elected for Wellingborough. He represented the division from 1918 to 1922. He represented his native city of Norwich in between 1923 and 1924, and again in from 1929 to 1931. In 1924 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries in the First MacDonald ministry.[3] The next year he replaced John Stirling-Maxwell as member of the Forestry Commission.[5] In the Second MacDonald ministry Smith was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (1929–31).[3] He was chairman of the Labour Party in 1934, and the following year Smith was announced as a member of the newly created Herring Industry Board.[3][6] References1. ^{{rayment-hc|N|3|date=March 2012}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=Debrett's House of Commons, and the judicial bench |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1922 |publisher=|location= |isbn= |page=148 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKxJAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Walter+Robert+Smith%22+norwich&dq=%22Walter+Robert+Smith%22+norwich&hl=en&ei=4Sg8TcXNK4n0swOMl_HTAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg |accessdate=2011-01-23}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news |title=DEATH OF MR. W. R. SMITH|work=Northampton Mercury |date=27 February 1942 |accessdate=17 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000732/19420227/204/0008| via = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}} 4. ^{{cite book |last1=Griffiths |first1=Clare |title=Labour and the Countryside |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199287437|page=360}} 5. ^{{cite news |title=FORESTRY COMMISSIONER|work=Aberdeen Journal |date=26 February 1925 |accessdate=17 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000577/19250226/081/0007| via = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}} 6. ^{{cite news |title=EIGHT MEN—THE HERRING INDUSTRY'S FATE IN THEIR HANDS|work=Hull Daily Mail |date=8 March 1935 |accessdate=18 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19350308/200/0024| via = British Newspaper Archive|subscription=yes}} External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Wellingborough | years = 1918–1922 }}{{s-aft | after = Geoffrey Shakespeare }}{{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Norwich | with = Dorothy Jewson | years = 1923–1924 | before = Hilton Young and George Henry Roberts | after = Hilton Young and J. Griffyth Fairfax }}{{Succession box | title = Member of Parliament for Norwich | with = Geoffrey Shakespeare | years = 1929–1931 | before = Hilton Young and J. Griffyth Fairfax | after = George Hartland and Geoffrey Shakespeare }}{{s-ppo}}{{s-bef|before=Joseph Compton}}{{s-ttl|title=Chair of the Labour Party|years=1933–1934}}{{s-aft|after=William Albert Robinson}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before=The Earl of Ancaster | title=Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | years=1924 | after=The Lord Bledisloe}}{{s-npo|union}}{{succession box|title=President of the National Union of Agricultural Workers|years=1911–1923|before=George Nicholls|after=Bill Holmes}}{{succession box|title=Auditor of the Trades Union Congress|years=1920|with=William Straker|before=John Robertson and Ben Smith|after=David Grenfell and Samuel Lomax}}{{end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Walter Robert}}{{England-Labour-UK-MP-stub}}{{UK-trade-unionist-bio-stub}} 13 : 1872 births|1942 deaths|UK MPs 1918–22|UK MPs 1923–24|UK MPs 1929–31|Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies|National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs|Presidents of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers|People from Wellingborough|People from Norwich|Place of birth missing|Chairs of the Labour Party (UK)|Parliamentary Secretaries to the Board of Trade |
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