DescriptionGledson came to Australia in 1885 and settled with his parents at Bundamba. He worked in the Bundamba mine, he was inspired with union ideals by Gilbert Casey. Blacklisted and dismissed from Bundamba, he followed his father into the Tivoli pit. He married Susannah Jane Bird in 1904. After a strike in 1905, he helped to found the Queensland Colliery Employees’ Union. In 1908 he was appointed first full-time secretary of his union. A strong supporter of the federation of state mining unions, he represented Queensland at the 1915 meeting in Sydney which brought the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation into being. He won the state seat of Ipswich in 1915. Elected to the cabinet in 1925, he would become the secretary for labour and industry in 1926. He lost Ipswich in 1929 but retuned in the general election of 1932. He was secretary for mines in 1939-41. He died in office in 1949. He is best remembered for service to the trade union movement. References (online)Australian Dictionary of Biography online edition, retrieved 19 January 2011
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