Ernie Roberts

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Ernest Alfred Cecil "Ernie" Roberts (20 April 1912 – 28 August 1994) was a British politician, a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party between 1979 general election and 1987 general election for the inner London constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington when he was deselected in favour of Diane Abbott.

Ernie Roberts left elementary school in Shrewsbury at the age of thirteen and was an engineering worker for many years until he became Assistant General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in 1957. He was very much on the left wing of the Labour Party.

He married Joyce Langley in 1953, and had a son and two daughters.^[1]

Books

Workers' Control (Allen & Unwin 1973)
労働者支配制 (Workers' Control Japanese edition) (1975)
Unemployment - The Facts (Part-author) (Spokesman Books)
Humanising the Work-place (Part-author) (Crook & Helm)
The solution is Workers Control (pamphlet) (Spokesman Books)
Democracy in the Engineering Union (Part-author) (IWC)
Strike Back (Autobiography, with forewords by Tony Benn and Arthur Scargill) (1994)

References

↑ Who's Who 1987

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by David Weitzman	Hackney North and Stoke Newington 1979–1987	Succeeded by Diane Abbott

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Name	Roberts, Ernest
Alternative names
Short description	British politician
Date of birth	20 April 1912
Place of birth
Date of death	28 August 1994
Place of death

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