(1863-1936) General Secretary of the Fife Miners7 Union from 1908 until his death. In 1910 he became Scotland's first miners' MP, representing Fife West until 1931. Prominent within the Parliamentary labour Party, as chairman and nominated leader from 1917 to 1921. Secretary of State for Scotland in MacDonald's 1924 and 1929 governments. He lost his parliamentary seat to a Tory in 1931 and failed to regain it in 1935 when Willie Gallacher of the Communist Party was elected.