Wilfred Meryl Fernando

Weerahennedige Theodore Wilfred Meryl Fernando
Popularly as Meryl Fernando
Born on 18 April 1923
Died on 27 May 2007 was a Ceylonese teacher, trade unionist, politician and Member of Parliament.
In 1948 he got the carpentry workers at Willorawatta, Moratuwa, to join the Industrial and General Workers Union, an affiliate of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)). Fernando and Doric de Souza successfully negotiated better employment conditions for the carpentry workers.
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