Alan Findlay

Alan Andrew Hart Findlay (1873 – 15 November 1943) was a Scottish trade unionist.

Findlay in 1921

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.^[1]

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.^[2] 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.^[1]

Findlay retired from his union post in 1940,^[3] and served as a member of a British industry mission to the United States the following year. He died in 1943, aged 70.^[4]