Career
Turner was Secretary of the Heavy Woollen district branch of the West Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers Association. In 1928 Turner was President of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress at the time of the talks with Sir Alfred Mond. He served in the Government as Secretary for Mines for a year from 1929.
On the occasion of his Golden Wedding in 1934 Turner wrote a volume of poetry entitled "Rhymes, Verses and Poems from a Yorkshire Loom" (Pontefract, WMcGowan, 1934).
