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{{Short description|British trade unionist}}
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:''He should not be confused with [[Jack Owen (1887–1957)]] who was also a  British [[trade unionist]].''<ref name="biog">[http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=884:owen-jack&catid=15:o&Itemid=116 Compendium of Communist Biography], Graham Stevenson,  extracted 9 Nov 2016</ref>

'''Jack Owen''' (c.1890 – 22 October 1983) was a [[British people|British]] [[trade unionist]].

Born in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire]], Owen worked as a blastfurnaceman in a foundry for twenty-five years.  He joined the [[National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades]] (NUB), and began working full-time for the union in 1937.<ref name="obituary">[[Trades Union Congress]], ''Report of the 1983 Annual Trades Union Congress'', p.356</ref>

In 1948, Owen was elected as general secretary of the NUB, and also to the [[General Council of the Trades Union Congress]].  He retired in 1953,<ref name="obituary" /> and wrote ''Ironmen'', a history of the union.<ref>Jack Eaton and Colin Gill, ''Jack Eaton, Colin Gill'', p.137</ref>

Owen died at the age of 93 in 1983.<ref name="obituary" />

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