1978 ENERGY FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED BY JOE GORMLEY, MINERS LEADER


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1978 ENERGY FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED BY JOE GORMLEY, MINERS LEADER
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Joseph (Joe) Gormley, Baron Gormley, OBE (5 July191727 May1993) was President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1971 to 1982 and a Labour peer.

Gormley was born in Ashton-in-Makerfield, in Lancashire in 1917, one of seven children [1], and became a miner at the age of fourteen. He was an active trade union official and became a committee member of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in 1957. He served as general secretary of the north-western region (comprising Lancashire and Cumberland) from April 1961 and joined the national executive in 1963.