The eight candidates above had been whittled down from an initial 111 nominees. The eight candidates were: G Garland, H Tunney, J Parker, J Kelly, Will Lawther and W L Pearson. It’s possibly significant that Lawther is the only one of the candidates accorded a first name by the newspaper’s caption writer. He’s a friendly and familiar ‘Will’. The others are only allowed coldly formal initials.
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The article continues on the next page.
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My commentary and a transcription of the newspaper’s Hubert Tunney bio is here.
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The vote was eventually won by Lawther, after a further two candidate ballots in which Moore secured second place. The results of this election were:: Lawther 22,559, Moore 11,038, Murray 6,455, Tunney 5,319, Pearson 4,769, Kelly 3,895 and Garland 3,796.
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Lawther went on to become the President of the wartime Miners’ Federation of Great Britain and the founding President of the new National Union of Mineworkers in 1945.. He was knighted in 1947 However, at this time he was no more than a contemporary of Hubert Tunney in the DMA. That’s an indication of where the latter’s career may have taken him, if not for his on-going difficulties with the Seaham Division Labour Party.
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In a further election in January 1935, Edward Moore, who was the temporary DMA Treasurer in 1933, defeated Hubert Tunney and William Pearson, also a losing candidate in this election, to become the DMA’s new Financial Secretary.
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In 1936, in his final bid for DMA office, Hubert Tunney reached the final stages of the contest in which set Sam Watson on his way to eventually leading the Durham Miners’postwar.
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HUBERT TUNNEY, 1890-74, HOME
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