The Power of the Heart

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Gallacher, Baron Gallacher (7 May 1920 4 January 2004) was a British co-operative official and politician. Gallacher born in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, was educated at St. Patrick''s High School, Dumbarton and worked for Vale of Leven Co-operative Society before World War II. He served in the Royal Air Force then joined the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) in Dumbarton as a trainee in Glasgow. In 1949, he was sent on a SCWS scholarship to the Co-operative College in Loughborough for two years and gained a Co-operative Secretary''s Diploma (CSD). He went on to work as assistant educational secretary at the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society in South London, and then moved to be education secretary with the Enfield Highway Co-operative Society. He was then the Southern Sectional Secretary of the Co-operative Union, leaving for a short while to be labour advisor to the Motor Agents'' Association before returning to the Union.