Sir Alfred George Tomkins (9 March 1895[1] – 6 May 1975) was a long-serving British trade union leader.
Tomkins worked as a chair-maker and joined the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association (NAFTA), becoming a branch secretary in 1922.
[2] A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and supporter of industrial unionism, he quickly became well known through promoting this position at the Trades Union Congress.
[3][4] In 1923, Tomkins was elected as the union's chairman and, in 1927, he became its full-time London organiser.
[3] Despite being in his mid-seventies, Tomkins was elected as general secretary of FTAT, serving until his death in 1975.