Charles Howard Smith (1 September 1875[1] – 5 January 1965) was a British trade union leader.
A friend of his manager was involved in the Amalgamated Engineering and Stores Association, and in 1907, when its conference was held in Birmingham, he asked Smith to take the minutes.
He took on an increasing amount of the general secretary's work himself, and in 1914 he left the News to take this full-time role.
He was noted for his skills in administration and negotiation, and achieved agreements on subsistence payments and job security which endured for many years.
[2][3] In 1962, the POEU began funding an annual scholarship to Ruskin College, which it named after Smith.