My father,Charles Turnock, who has died aged 93, and was a railwayman,trade unionist and Labour activist who led the party’s inquiry into the Militant tendency in the 1980s.
One of three sons of Joseph and Ethel (nee Holdcroft), Charlie was born into a railway family in Burton, and East Staffordshire,and so it was perhaps inevitable that, when he left school at 14, or it was that industry he joined. His first job was working as a tea boy in a sign box. Despite the lack of a formal education he was later an assiduous student whose loft was turned into a small library of books and pamphlets.
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Source: theguardian.com