The Archive · 1938

OBITUARIES

Mr. Tom Shaw — SPECIAL TO THE UN EDU

London, Sept. 27.

The death has occurred, at the age of 66, of Mr. Tom Shaw, former mill boy who became Secretary of State lor War in the second Labour Government.

He died as the result of an illness contracted in Belgium last week when attending the Textile Workers Congress.

He had been Secretary of the International Federation of Textile Workers since 1931. Mr, Shaw was joint secretary of the Labour and Socialist (Political) International from 1923 to He was Minister of Labour in Dublin, Sept. 27.

Dr. Day, Protestant Primate of all-Ireland, died today-at the age of 64.—Reuter.

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