James Neil Jarvie (12 July 1919 – 10 October 1970)[1] was a British trade unionist who became the leader of the Blacksmiths union.
By the mid-1930s, the family had returned to Fife, and Jarvie undertook an apprenticeship as a blacksmith in Dunfermline.
[2] As soon as he completed his apprenticeship, Jarvie was elected as secretary of his local branch of the Associated Blacksmiths', Forge and Smithy Workers' Society.
[2][4] Jarvie continued his rise to prominence by becoming the full-time East of Scotland District Secretary for the Blacksmiths, also spending time representing the shipyards on the River Clyde.
He supported amalgamations of unions in the shipbuilding trades, and as such he organised a merger with the United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers, which renamed itself as the "Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers".