Robert Applegarth

Japanese: アップルガース（英語表記）Robert Applegarth

1834‐1924
British trade union leader. Son of a Yorkshire whaler. From the age of ten he worked as a shoe shiner and waiter before becoming a joiner. He emigrated to America in 1852. Returning to Sheffield in 1858, he joined a small local carpenters' union, eventually becoming its chairman. In 1861, this union merged with the United Union of Carpenters and Joiners, which had been formed the previous year, and he became its general secretary the following year. He moved to London in 1864, and in 1867 he formed the Council of United Unions with leaders of the "new model unions" of the time (known as the junta), and contributed to the passage of the Trade Unions Act of 1871 (which legally recognised trade union activity).

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1834‐1924
イギリスの労働組合運動指導者。ヨークシャーの捕鯨船員の子。10歳から靴磨き，給仕などをしたのち指物工となる。1852年アメリカに移住。58年にシェフィールドに帰り，地方の小さな大工組合に加入，やがてその委員長となる。この大工組合は61年には，前年成立した大工･指物工合同組合と合併したが，彼は翌年その書記長となった。64年ロンドンに移り，67年，当時の〈新型組合new model union〉の指導者たち(ジャンタjuntaとよばれる)と合同組合協議会を結成し，71年の労働組合法(労働組合活動を法認)の成立に貢献。

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