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3 unusual facts about Arthur Creech Jones


Arthur Creech Jones

In Africa, Creech Jones presided over a conference at Lancaster House for the African colonies in 1948.

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Among his work for the TGWU, Creech Jones visited the Ruhr Area to observe the effects of French occupation in 1923 (writing a pamphlet about the issue on his return), and helped to train Clements Kadalie of the South African Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union in how to organise a union.

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Having visited most countries of Europe including Nazi Germany, Creech Jones directed a rescue of hundreds of Jews from Czechoslovakia through the WTA after the Munich Agreement was signed.



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