Alan Findlay
{{Short description|Scottish trade unionist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
Alan Andrew Hart Findlay (1873 – 15 November 1943) was a Scottish trade unionist.
Born in Hurlford in Ayrshire, Findlay worked in the lace industry, as a coal-miner, and as a railway worker, then in an engineering plant and as a railway worker. There, he became involved in the United Patternmakers' Association, and in 1913 was elected as its Assistant General Secretary, followed in 1917 by election as General Secretary."New chairman of the TUC", Manchester Guardian, 26 September 1935
Findlay represented the Patternmakers on the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, serving as its treasurer from 1921, then as its president from 1923 to 1925.{{cite book |title=The Labour Who's Who |date=1927 |publisher=Labour Publishing Company |location=London |pages=67}} He was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1921, and served as President of the TUC in 1935/36.
Findlay retired from his union post in 1940,"Pattermakers' progress", Manchester Guardian, 18 November 1948 and served as a member of a British industry mission to the United States the following year. He died in 1943, aged 70."Mr A. A. H. Findlay", The Times, 17 November 1943
References
{{start box}}
{{s-npo|union}}
{{succession box|title=Assistant General Secretary of the United Patternmakers' Association|years=1913–1917|before=New position|after=John Mills}}
{{succession box|title=General Secretary of the United Patternmakers Association|years=1917–1940|before=William Mosses|after=Wilfred Beard}}
{{succession box|title=Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour|years=1930|with=Arthur Shaw|before=James Bell and James Thomas Brownlie|after=John Beard and Frank Wolstencroft}}
{{succession box|title=President of the Trades Union Congress|years=1935/36|before=William Kean|after=Ernest Bevin}}
{{end box}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Findlay, Allan}}
Category:General secretaries of the United Patternmakers' Association