Hugh McManus

Hugh McManus (died 5 February 1911) was an Irish trade unionist.

Born in County Fermanagh to a Catholic family, McManus trained as a printer and became active in the Typographical Association (TA). He worked for a time in England, but returned to Ireland to marry. In 1894, he was appointed as the union's Irish organiser. Basing himself in Belfast, he led a long campaign to unionise workers in the industry and improve working conditions, and his work established the TA as the leading union in the industry. He was also active on the Belfast Trades Council, where he was often critical of William Walker.[1][2]

Unlike many Belfast trade unionists, McManus was in favour of the establishment of an Irish association of trade unionists. He attended the founding of the Irish Trades Union Congress (ITUC) in 1894, and was elected as chairman of its first parliamentary committee. In 1899, he defeated John Simmons to become secretary of the ITUC, but the following year, both he and Simmons were defeated by E. L. Richardson. He was chair of the parliamentary committee again in 1901, and remained a member until 1904. In 1903, he attended the conference of the British Labour Representation Committee.[2]

McManus stood down from his TA post in 1910 and died unexpectedly the following year.[3]

References

  1. ^ Morgan, Austen (1991). Labour and Partition. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745303260.
  2. ^ a b Boyle, John W. (1988). The Irish Labour Movement in the Nineteenth Century. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press. ISBN 0813206375.
  3. ^ Musson, Albert Edward (1954). The Typographical Association. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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