# Alfred Short > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alfred_Short > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alfred_Short.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Short > Source revision: 1343070808 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British trades unionist and Labour politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Use British English|date=March 2018}} thumb|right|Alfred Short '''Alfred Short''' (1882 – 24 August 1938, London) was a British [trades union](/source/trades_union)ist and [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician, [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Wednesbury](/source/Wednesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) from 1918 to 1931, and for [Doncaster](/source/Doncaster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) from 1935 until 1938. Alfred Short began his working life apprenticed to a [boiler-maker](/source/boiler-maker) at 5s. a week. He rose to become Secretary of the [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield) Branch of the [Boilermakers' Society](/source/Boilermakers'_Society) from 1911 to 1919, and serve on [Sheffield City Council](/source/Sheffield_City_Council) from 1913 to 1919.'Mr. A Short, M.P.', ''[The Times](/source/The_Times)'', 25 August 1938 He was also Secretary of the [National Union of Docks, Wharves and Shipping Staffs](/source/National_Union_of_Docks%2C_Wharves_and_Shipping_Staffs).''[https://archive.org/details/debrettshouseo1922londuoft Debrett's House of Commons]'', 1922, p. 146 Elected an MP in 1918, Short continued other political activity: in 1922 he was chairman of the Management Committee of the [General Federation of Trade Unions](/source/General_Federation_of_Trade_Unions_(UK)), and he was called to the Bar from [Gray's Inn](/source/Gray's_Inn) in 1923. He was [Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department](/source/Under-Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department) from 1929 to 1931. From 1931 to 1935, when he was out of the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom), he worked for the [Transport and General Workers' Union](/source/Transport_and_General_Workers'_Union). ==References== {{reflist}} *{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}} == External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-alfred-short | Alfred Short }} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Wednesbury](/source/Wednesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1918](/source/1918_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1931](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [John Norton-Griffiths](/source/Sir_John_Norton-Griffiths%2C_1st_Baronet) | after = [Viscount Ednam](/source/William_Ward%2C_3rd_Earl_of_Dudley) }} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Doncaster](/source/Doncaster_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1935](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1938](/source/1938_Doncaster_by-election) | before = [Hugh Molson](/source/Hugh_Molson%2C_Baron_Molson) | after = [John Morgan](/source/John_Morgan_(Labour_politician)) }} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=[Sir Vivian Henderson](/source/Vivian_Henderson)}} {{s-ttl|title=[Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department](/source/Under-Secretary_of_State_for_the_Home_Department)|years= 1929–1931 }} {{s-aft|after=[Hon. Oliver Stanley](/source/Oliver_Stanley)}} {{s-npo|union}} {{succession box|title=General Secretary of the [National Union of Docks, Wharves and Shipping Staffs](/source/National_Union_of_Docks%2C_Wharves_and_Shipping_Staffs)|years=1919 – 1922|before=[Charles Ammon](/source/Charles_Ammon)|after=''Position abolished''}} {{succession box|title=National Secretary (Administrative, Clerical and Supervisory) of the [Transport and General Workers' Union](/source/Transport_and_General_Workers'_Union)|years=1922–1923|before=''New position''|after=[Arthur Creech-Jones](/source/Arthur_Creech-Jones)}} {{succession box|title=Chairman of the [General Federation of Trade Unions](/source/General_Federation_of_Trade_Unions_(UK))|years=1922 – 1924|before=[Thomas Mallalieu](/source/Thomas_Mallalieu)|after=[Frederick W. 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