It Was My Privilege

Hardback. Dust Jacket. Book in Very Good condition, Dust Jacket Very Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine 90 Pages followed by eight pages of Pen Pictures of some Union Officers in North Wales. Eight (8) illustrations. Previous owner's signature and private library stamp to front end papers. and rear of title page. Pictorial Dust Jacket designed by E Meirion Roberts is slightly chipped to edges This is the second book by Huw T Edwards. His first - 'Tros Y Tresi' written in Welsh - was his autobiography in which he describes the vicissitudes of life from his boyhood days in a remote cottage on a Caernarfonshire hillside, through the realities of unemployment to trade union leadership and leadership of a nation in his capacity as Chairman of the Council of Wales. In this book he gives a history of the growth of the Transport and General Worker's Union in North Wales. Yet it is not a history - but a gripping, scintilating story of human endeavour, shorn of heroics, to better the lot of man. The book is a tribute to the creators, leaders and membership of trade unionism in North Wales and to efficient, enlightened management.…