George Smith (trade unionist)

Sir George Fenwick Smith CBE (24 June 1914 – 21 November 1978) was a Scottish trade unionist.

[1] Smith was born in Arbroath, Angus, and educated at Inverbrothock and Downfield Schools.

[2] Smith became the full-time National Organiser of the Woodworkers in 1945, and then Assistant General Secretary in 1949.

[4] He also serve as the President of the Trades Union Congress in 1972, and on the council of Acas from 1974.

[3] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1969 and knighted in the 1978 New Year Honours.