Samuel Caldwell Nicholson
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Samuel Caldwell Nicholson (died 1891) was a British trade unionist.
Nicholson was a compositor who became the Treasurer of the . In 1864, he was elected the first President of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council. After hearing from William Dronfield, Secretary of the , of the lack of interest in trade union matters at the Congress of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Nicholson proposed forming a Trades Union Congress (TUC).
Nicholson was also General Secretary of the , and this event clashed with the first TUC conference, so he was unable to attend.
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