Sammy Gilmore
Sammy Gilmore was a shipyard electrician and trade union organiser known for being one of the leaders of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in in 1971.
Life
After serving his time as an electrician in the building trade, he moved to the shipyards in the 1950s and became active in the trade union. By the time of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders crisis at the beginning of the 1970s, Gilmore had become one of the most respected shop stewards in Clyde shipbuilding, eventually becoming convenor. Gilmore joined Jimmy Reid, Sammy Barr, and Jimmy Airlie in planning and organising the campaign of industrial action which followed in 1971. All four union leaders were members of the Communist Party at the time.
As a union leader, Gilmore was known for his skill in public speaking, good humour, and straight talking manner - reportedly telling the then Prime Minister Ted Heath to "cut the commercials". A rebuke from a London journalist whose call went unanswered after hours was met with the sharp response - "Did no one tell you? Govan Shipbuilders go jogging on a Friday night."
Sammy
Sammy is a nickname, frequently for people with the name Samuel, and also an English spelling of the Arabic name Sami. It is also occasionally found as a surname.
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Sammy (comics)
Sammy is a popular humour Belgian comics series. It first started in 1970 in the weekly comic Spirou magazine, it has been published in book form, and even been the subject of several omnibus editions by Dupuis. Raoul Cauvin wrote the series while artist Berck (aka Arthur Berckmans) drew the first thirty or so adventures before being succeeded by Jean-Pol (aka Jean-Pol Van Den Broeck).
Set mainly in 1920s Chicago, the series centres on freelance bodyguards Jack Attaway and his sidekick Sammy Day. Their assignments have them protecting people from all walks of life, from young children to celebrities, fighting gangsters both at home and abroad and even facing elements of fantasy and science-fiction. The real-life gangster Al Capone and his sworn enemy Eliot Ness of the "Untouchables" are also regular characters. Although occasionally violent, the emphasis of the series is on humour.
The 40th book in the series was published in 2009 and it was announced that it would be Sammy's final adventure.
Sami (name)
Sami or Sammy (Arabic: سامي, IPA: [ˈsaːmiː], Finnish pronunciation: [sɑmi]) is a given name and surname of different origins and meanings, most prevalent in the Arab world and Scandinavia. When spelled in English, it can be spelled as Sammy and often mistakenly confused as the abbreviated English name Sammy.
Sami or Sammy can be an Arabic name meaning "elevated" (الرفعة) or "sublime" (السُّمُوّ), or a Turkish name, a Finnish male name derived from Samuel, or an American name abbreviated from Samantha or Samuel.
When used outside of English speaking countries – specifically amongst non-native Arabic speakers – the name Sammy or Sami is mistakenly confused with Samee (Arabic for 'one who hears') or Samir (another Arabic name altogether). However, it is in fact an unabbreviated Arabic name derived from the verb saamaa (ساما) and yasmo (يسمو) which means to transcend. This is from the root samaa (سما,سمو) which means to be high, elevated, eminent, prominent.
The feminine version of this name in Arabic is Samiya or Samia (سامِيَة).
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