My life and the ICU : The autobiography of a black trade unionist in South Africa...
/ edited with an introduction by Stanley Trapido, 1970
Wikipedia, 2022-04-15
Information trouvée : Clements Kadalie (1896 – 1951) was born Lameck Koniwaka Kadali Muwamba in Nyasaland
(present-day Malawi). At age sixteen, he was a qualified teacher. He later settled
in Cape Town, South Africa where he became South Africa's first black national trade
union leader. In 1918, he settled in Cape Town, where he befriended Arthur F. Batty,
an emerging trade unionist and political activist. In early 1919, with Batty's advice,
Kadalie founded the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU), later renamed the Industrial
and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, to protest against unfair labour laws and
to protect workers' right