Feather was born in Idle, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1908, and was named after the recently elected socialist MP Victor Grayson.

In the 1920’s he worked for Frank Betts (father of future Labour UK Employment Secretary Barbara Castle MP) as a journalist and cartoonist for ‘The Bradford Pioneer’.

[2] As General Secretary, Feather led the British trade union movement's fight against Heath government's Industrial Relations Act 1971.

During his time as assistant secretary of the TUC, he was secretly being paid to write anti-communist propaganda by the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office which dealt in weaponised disinformation, anti-communism, and pro-colonial propaganda.

[4] British propagandists also used Feather's services to promote anti-communist propaganda from within the TUC.