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"CRAMP, CONCEMORE THOMAS (1876-), British Labour politician, was born at Staplehurst, Kent, on March 19 1876. He left school at the age of 12, and worked as a boy gardener to the local squire. At the age of 18 he left his native village and obtained employment as a gardener outside Portsmouth. In 1896 at the age of 21 he joined the service of the Midland Railway at Shipley, near Bradford, as a porter at 16s. a week of seven days of 12 hours each. He was later transferred to Masboro', then to Sheffield, and promoted to a passenger guard. He joined the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and first appeared as a delegate at its Birmingham all grades conference, 1907. Later he became delegate to the annual general meeting of the A.S.R.S. and in 1911 was elected to represent his district on the executive committee. He was elected president of the National Union of Railwaymen at the 1917 annual general meeting. During the World War he became a member of several Government committees including the Port and Transit Executive Committee, Committee on Adult Education, Consumers' Council, and Railway Advisory Committee. He stood for Parliament unsuccessfully as Labour candidate for Middlesborough at the general election in 1918. He was appointed Industrial General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen on Jan. 1 1920 and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Labour party.