Deakin, Arthur 

Trade union leader, born in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, C England, UK. A full-time trade union official from 1919, in 1935 he became assistant to Ernest Bevin, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union. In 1945 he himself became general secretary of the union, and president of the World Federation of Trade Unions (1945–9). He was also one of the founders of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions.