Name: Arthur Ernest Watson
Province of Birth: New Wales
Ethnic Background: rural Anglophone
Religion: Methodist
Political stance: Democratic Socialist
Party: Antillia Labour Party
Background: Watson is a cloth-cap wearing Trade Unionist with no formal education, a thick West Coast accent and little knowledge of the French language. He is known for his dislike of the Antillian Establishment, for his hatred of Communism.
He was born into rural poverty in the Nieves Mountains, and moved to New Merthyr (an industrial suburb of Wellington) to find work at a young age. After working in various manual occupations, he fell in with the growing Trade Union movement. Watson rose through the ranks of the Transport & Industrial Workers Union (TIWU) becoming its General Secretary at the age of 34 and later helped (in a behind-the-scenes way) to orchestrate the creation of the Trades Union Federation (TUF) and the Antillia Labour Party.
