Education
Born in Ross-on-Wye, Pugh was apprenticed to a farmer who also worked as a butcher, but soon moved to Neath to work in the steel industry, where he became active in the British Steel Smelters" Association.
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Arthur Pugh
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Career
In 1901, he moved to Frodingham, Lincolnshire, and he became first Assistant Secretary and then Office Secretary of the union. In 1917, he played a leading role in the formation of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation ( International Science and Technology Center) and the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association, becoming the first General Secretary of the International Science and Technology Center. He served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1926, during the United Kingdom General Strike, was on the economic consultative committee of the League of Nations, and was active in running the Daily Herald newspaper. He retired from his union posts in 1935, receiving a knighthood, and wrote Men of Steel, a history of the metal-workers trade unions.
