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OUR ROLL OF HONOR.
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I! II ?
Ml* Unnmr Phiaeerm / PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
Mr. nenry viiessoii { trades and labor council.
MK. HENRY CHESSON, the recently ap
pointed president of the Trades and Labor
Council, was born in Adelaide on Sep
tember 15, 1862, and was educated at
Grote Street Model School and at Mr.
Moore's Pulteney Street establishment.
After leaving school, and having tried
various kinds of employment, he decided
upon learning the building trade, and at the
age of fifteen was apprenticed to the trade
of a mason and bricklayer. He worked
at his trade in Adelaide until 1885, when
he went to Melbourne, where he stayed
until 1892, since which time he has re
sided continuously in South Australia.
Prior to leaving for Melbourne he had
become a member of the Masons and
Bricklayers' Society, and while in Victoria
he associated himself with the Bricklayers'
Society of Melbourne, rejoining his own
society on his return to Adelaide. Mr.
Chesson has been a delegate to the Trades
and Labor Council for the past three or
four years. Last year he was elected
vice-president, and at the last half-yearly
meeting he received the higher' honor of
being made president. He is a member
of the managing committee of the Trades
Hall, on which he represents the Eight
Hours Union, of which he is also a
trustee. Mr. Chesson has always taken
an interest in Labor and democratic
matters, and is a most useful and active
worker in the Labor cause.
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