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A Promise Kept - The Life and Work of Tom Chapman (Paperback)
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A Promise Kept - The Life and Work of Tom Chapman (Paperback)
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A popular and respected trades unionist, Tom Chapman was elected a
divisional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1958,
beating his communist opponent by one vote. This pitched him into
the bitter struggle between the moderates and the hard-left who, in
many cases, were financed and directed from Moscow. Such conflict
could be treated as an ugly memory best forgotten, but as the hard
left gained control of more unions, Marxist economic philosophy,
with its essentially divisive nature, pitting labour and capital
against each other, is returning to bedevil industrial relations
and damage the economy. To stand for moderation and fair play in
such circumstances needs courage and resourcefulness, as Chapman
discovered when he was subjected to harassment and obstruction in
carrying out his official duties. Despite this, he remained
scrupulously fair, even fighting for a hard-left activist and known
troublemaker who had been wrongfully dismissed. Chapman's strength
was his Christian faith, unfettered by humbug, and his "secret
weapon" was an all-inclusive love, by no means sentimental, that
always tried to build bridges between opposing factions. Applied to
industrial relations, he saw clearly that: "There are always two
sides to every conflict in negotiation, but it is also true that
both sides have a common objective. This common objective is the
continued success or prosperity of the company, the industry, or
even the nation". After leaving union employment, he was appointed
liaison officer to the Church of England's Board of Social
Responsibility, where he sometimes acted as the Archbishop of
Canterbury's envoy to resolve damaging and protracted strikes at
Vickers, Pilkingtons and Linwood. Later he formed the European
Christian Industrial Movement to continue his lifelong work of
building bridges between people. When a boy of 12, Tom Chapman
dedicated his life to Christian service. This book is an account of
how he kept that promise and gives a glimpse of how another Battle
of Britain was fought where "so much [was] owed by so many to so
few".
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