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Daniel West Milford (3 December 1876''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 10 September 1950) was a
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trade unionist A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages ...
. Born in
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, Milford worked as a docker. He joined the
Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union The Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers Union (DWRGLU), often known as the Dockers' Union, was a British trade union representing dock workers in the United Kingdom, founded in 1887 and merged into the Transport and General Workers' U ...
around the turn of the century, and served as its president from 1913. The dockers' union became part of the
Transport and General Workers' Union The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general union, general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland—where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU)—with 900 ...
, and from 1929 Milford served as secretary of its Docks Group, soon additionally becoming secretary of the union's Waterways Group. Milford retired in 1941, but remained involved with the industry, in 1943 serving on a committee investigating the handling of explosives by dockers. He died in
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in 1950.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Milford, Dan 1876 births 1950 deaths Trade unionists from Cardiff