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<p><b>Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple</b> (8 August 1921 – 19 October 2004) was general secretary of the <a href="Electrical%2C_Electronic%2C_Telecommunications_and_Plumbing_Union" title="Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union">Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union</a> (EETPU), a leading British trade union.

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<p>Frank Chapple was born in the slum area of <a href="Hoxton" title="Hoxton">Hoxton</a>, east London, in a flat above his father's shoe-repair shop. There was no bath or running hot water in the Chapple home, later, on Pitfield Street.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-obituary-chapple_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-obituary-chapple-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>A <a href="Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">Communist Party</a> member early in his adult life, Chapple left the party after, and partly as a result of, the Soviet suppression of the <a href="Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956" title="Hungarian Revolution of 1956">Hungarian Revolution of 1956</a>. He became a forceful anti-communist, and with <a href="Les_Cannon" title="Les Cannon">Les Cannon</a> ran a successful campaign in the late 1950s to counter communist vote-rigging in his union. He joined the Labour Party in 1958.<sup id="cite_ref-ODNB_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODNB-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Chapple served as a member of the <a href="Trades_Union_Congress" title="Trades Union Congress">Trades Union Congress</a> general council for 12 years to 1983, having first joined the union in 1937, and he had held offices at every level in the electricians' union. From 1966 to 1984 he was the general secretary of the EETPU. After his retirement, he was elevated to the <a href="House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as a <a href="Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> on 4 February 1985 taking the title <b>Baron Chapple</b>, <i>of <a href="Hoxton" title="Hoxton">Hoxton</a> in <a href="Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His successor was fellow anti-communist <a href="Eric_Hammond" title="Eric Hammond">Eric Hammond</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc-chapple-death_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc-chapple-death-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of Chapple's sons, Barry Chapple, was a regional official of <a href="Amicus_(trade_union)" title="Amicus (trade union)">Amicus</a>, which succeeded the EETPU. Amicus merged with the <a href="TGWU" class="mw-redirect" title="TGWU">TGWU</a> in 2007 to become <a href="Unite_the_Union" title="Unite the Union">Unite the Union</a>.

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</style><cite id="CITEREFGoodman2004" class="citation news cs1"><a href="Geoffrey_Goodman" title="Geoffrey Goodman">Goodman, Geoffrey</a> (22 October 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/22/guardianobituaries">"Obituary: Lord Chapple"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-bbc-chapple-death-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-bbc-chapple-death_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3761276.stm">"Union leader Lord Chapple dead"</a>. BBC News. 20 October 2004<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 January</span> 2013</span>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li>Aikman, Calum, 'Frank Chapple: A Thoughtful Trade Union Moderniser', in <i>Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century</i>, eds. Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 211–42.</li>

<li>Chapple, Frank, <i>Sparks Fly: A Trade Union Life</i> (London: Michael Joseph, 1984).</li>

<li>Lloyd, John, <i>Light and Liberty: The History of the EETPU</i> (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3761276.stm">BBC obituary</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mrc.epexio.com/records/FCH">Catalogue of Chapple's papers</a>, held at the <a href="Modern_Records_Centre%2C_University_of_Warwick" title="Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick">Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick</a></li></ul>

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