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==Career== | ==Career== | ||
He initially worked as a mission teacher, before becoming an underground worker at the [[Nkana]] mine in 1936, later promoted to recruiting clerk.<ref>Berger, p. 92.</ref> Katilungu first came to prominence in 1940 as a leader of striking African mineworkers at Nkana.<ref>Berger, p. 85.</ref> In February 1948, he was elected President of the newly formed Nkana | He initially worked as a mission teacher, before becoming an underground worker at the [[Nkana]] mine in 1936, later promoted to recruiting clerk.<ref>Berger, p. 92.</ref> Katilungu first came to prominence in 1940 as a leader of striking African mineworkers at Nkana.<ref>Berger, p. 85.</ref> In February 1948, he was elected President of the newly formed [[Nkana Union]]. In March 1949 all the African miners' unions in Northern Rhodesia, including Nkana, amalgamated to form the African Mineworkers' Union, and Katilungu became president.<ref>Berger, p. 92.</ref> In 1952, he led a successful strike to gain a wage increase of a half-crown per day for African workers.<ref>Shillington, p. 1700.</ref><ref>Campbell, p. 194.</ref> | ||
Briefly a member of the | Briefly a member of the Constitution Party, Katilungu was selected as a member of the 26-member Advisory Commission on Central Africa, set up by the British government in 1959 to prepare the 1960 conference to review the Constitution of the [[Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland]].<ref>[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1959/nov/24/advisory-commission-on-central-africa#S5LV0219P0-01640Hansard, House of Lords Debates, 24 November 1959 vol 219 cc890-901]</ref> | ||
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