William Harold Hutchinson

William Harold Hutchinson (25 April 1878[1] – 19 May 1965) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party activist.

Educated to secondary school level, Hutchinson became active in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and was first elected to its Executive Council in 1913.

The following year, he was also elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, becoming its chairman in 1920.

[2] Unusually for a trade union official, Hutchinson was a supporter of guild socialism,[3] and was close to G. D. H. Cole and the Fabian Society.

He then briefly worked as an organiser for the Industrial Orthopaedic Society, before retiring fully in 1946.