Arthur Horner (politician)

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Arthur Horner (1894-1968) was a British trade union leader and politician.

Horner was A. J. Cook's deputy as leader of the South Wales Miners' Federation and was a founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Having stood unsuccessfully as a Parliamentary candidate, he became President of the South Wales Miners' Federation in 1936 and of the National Union of Mineworkers in 1946.