Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alwyn Machen (1901–1 March 1960) was a British trade union leader.Born into a coal mining family in Derbyshire, Machen left school and began working as a coal miner at the age of thirteen. He continued his education at the Chesterfield Labour College, and soon began to lecture personally at the college. He joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), and through this role, helped organise a major demonstration in London in 1925, where he heard Herbert Smith and A. J.. }
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- Alwyn_Machen comment "Alwyn Machen (1901–1 March 1960) was a British trade union leader.Born into a coal mining family in Derbyshire, Machen left school and began working as a coal miner at the age of thirteen. He continued his education at the Chesterfield Labour College, and soon began to lecture personally at the college. He joined the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB), and through this role, helped organise a major demonstration in London in 1925, where he heard Herbert Smith and A. J.".