Editing Len Murray (section)

==Career==
Murray started as a manager for a [[Liverpool]] catering firm. He was a [[Trades Union Congress]] (TUC) employee from 1947, when he joined as an assistant in the economics department. Seven years later he was promoted to head of the department. He was elected assistant general-secretary in 1969.

In 1970 he was invited to deliver the Marlow (Scotland) Lecture to the [[Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland]]. He chose the subject ''Trade Unions and the State – 1964 to 1970 in Retrospect''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Marlow (Scotland) Lectures|url=http://www.iesis.org/marlow.html|publisher=[[Institution of Engineers & Shipbuilders in Scotland]]|accessdate=14 March 2017}}</ref>

He became [[General Secretary of the TUC]] in 1973, leading it during the [[Winter of Discontent]] and the confrontations with [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s government.