Ted Hill

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Ted Hill (footballer)

Ted Hill (15 January 1914 - 1 July 1986) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Ted Hill (trade unionist)

Edward James Hill, Baron Hill of Wivenhoe (1899–14 December 1969), known as Ted Hill, was a British trade unionist.

Born in London, Hill served with the Royal Marine Engineers during World War I, joining the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders in 1916. He spent time mending boilers for P&O, and in his spare time was a wrestler. In 1934, he worked alongside Anuerin Bevan to organise a national hunger march.

By 1939, Hill was the London delegate to the executive committee of the Boilermakers, and in 1948 he was elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC). In 1949, he was elected as General Secretary of the union, and soon acquired a reputation as a left-winger, aligned with the Labour Party but often critical of its policies - a supporter of unilateral disarmament and generally an opponent of militarism. In 1953, he was censured by the TUC for making a speech contrary to its policies, the first occasion on which the body is known to have censured one of the members of its General Council. During the UK engineering strike, 1957, he famously asked "what's in this productivity for my members?"