# Frank Purdy

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'''William Frank Purdy''' (1872 &ndash; 1929)<ref name="webb">Norman Mackenzie, ''The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume 3'', p.91</ref> was a [British](/source/British_people) [trade unionist](/source/trade_unionist).

Based in [Newcastle-upon-Tyne](/source/Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Purdy was active in the [Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association](/source/Shipconstructors'_and_Shipwrights'_Association),<ref name="webb" /> and became its Assistant General Secretary by 1920.  He succeeded [Alexander Wilkie](/source/Alexander_Wilkie) as the union's Acting General Secretary shortly before Wilkie's death in 1928, but Purdy himself died the following year before he could stand for election to the permanent post.<ref>Alan Haworth and Dianne Haytor, ''Men Who Made Labour''</ref><ref>David Dougan, ''The shipwrights: the history of the Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association, 1882-1963'', p.225</ref>

Purdy was also a member of the [National Executive Committee](/source/National_Executive_Committee_of_the_Labour_Party) of the [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)).  He moved that [George Wardle](/source/George_Wardle) preside over the 1917 party conference as acting chair, and Purdy was then elected as chairman for 1917/18.<ref>''Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party, 1918''</ref>

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