Just when you thought it was never going to end! This is last extract from the paper on Hutt and the mythology of the trade union movement.
The career of William Harold Hutt
Bill Hutt’s father was a skilled tradesman, a compositor and a reluctant trade unionist with W H Smith and Son. Hutt completed high school during World War I and trained as a pilot but the war finished before he gained his “wings”. He recalled that he could take off quite well but he had some problems with landing which prompted his wing commander to complain that Hutt was inflicting more damage on the RAF than the Germans could manage at that late stage of the war.
He took a commerce degree from the University of London and from 1924 until 1928 he worked as a personal assistant with the publisher Sir Ernest Benn. He wrote his first…
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