Jim Knox, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Jim Knox

New Zealand truck driver, watersider, trade unionist, and rugby footballer

Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1919

Date of Death: 01-Dec-1991

Profession: rugby union player, rugby league player, trade unionist

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Walter James Knox (6 March 1919 – 1 December 1991) was a leading New Zealand trade union leader.
He was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 6 March 1919Knox worked as a truck driver and watersider, becoming involved in the 1951 waterside strike, and rose through the union ranks to become secretary of the Auckland District Woollen Mills Employees’ Union and vice president of the Auckland Trades Council in 1961.
In 1969, Knox became secretary of the New Zealand Federation of Labour, working alongside the organisation’s president, Sir Tom Skinner. On 6 February 1988, Knox was the seventh appointee to The Order of New Zealand.