About: Chan Yiu-choi     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FChan_Yiu-choi&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

Chan Yiu-choi (Chinese: 陳耀材; 1901–1988) or Chan Yiu-choy, was a Hong Kong trade unionist and the first President of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) from 1957 to 1980. Chan was born in Hong Kong to a working-class family in 1901. He was a sailor in his young age and participated in the Canton-Hong Kong strike of 1925. He joined the Hong Kong Tramways subsequently. He founded a trade union at the tramways and was active in fundraising for the war efforts after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937. He later became the chairman of the Hong Kong Tramways Workers Union in 1954.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Chan Yiu-choi (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Chan Yiu-choi (Chinese: 陳耀材; 1901–1988) or Chan Yiu-choy, was a Hong Kong trade unionist and the first President of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) from 1957 to 1980. Chan was born in Hong Kong to a working-class family in 1901. He was a sailor in his young age and participated in the Canton-Hong Kong strike of 1925. He joined the Hong Kong Tramways subsequently. He founded a trade union at the tramways and was active in fundraising for the war efforts after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937. He later became the chairman of the Hong Kong Tramways Workers Union in 1954. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
title
  • President of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (en)
  • Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (en)
years
has abstract
  • Chan Yiu-choi (Chinese: 陳耀材; 1901–1988) or Chan Yiu-choy, was a Hong Kong trade unionist and the first President of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) from 1957 to 1980. Chan was born in Hong Kong to a working-class family in 1901. He was a sailor in his young age and participated in the Canton-Hong Kong strike of 1925. He joined the Hong Kong Tramways subsequently. He founded a trade union at the tramways and was active in fundraising for the war efforts after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937. He later became the chairman of the Hong Kong Tramways Workers Union in 1954. Chan was one of the founding members of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Federation of Trade Unions (HKFTU) established in 1948. He became the 4th, 5th and 6th Deputy Chairman of the Federation between 1951 and 1953 and the 7th, 8th and 9th Chairman between 1954 and 1956. In 1957, he took over the presidency of the Federation until his retirement in 1980. He held the position as an advisor his death in 1988. Chan was also appointed member of National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in 1978. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is predecessor of
is predecessor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 52 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software