WILLIAMS
,
WILLIAM HUGH
(
Arafon
;
1848
-
1917
),
trade union leader
;
b.
8 Aug. 1848
at
Mynydd Llandygài, Caerns.
— his mother was a sister to
William
Owen
,
Prysgol
(
1813
-
1893
) (q.v.)
. He was the
leader for the strikers
at the
Penrhyn quarry
,
Caerns.
, in the
1896
strike and the unofficial
adviser of the quarrymen
in the great strike of
1900-03
. He became
financial secretary
to the
North Wales Quarrymen's Union
. He was a cultured man and a sane leader. He d.
24 Nov. 1917
at
Mynydd Llandygài
.
Sources:
-
E. Morgan Humphreys
,
Gwyr Enwog Gynt argraffiadau ac atgofion
personol
(Aberystwyth)
,
1950
.
Author:
David Thomas, O.B.E., M.A., (1880-1967), Bangor
