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Amalgamated Weavers' Association

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Founded
  
1884

Members
  
224,000 (1921)

Country
  
Date dissolved
  
1974

Affiliation
  
TUC, GFTU, UTFWA

The Amalgamated Weavers' Association, often known as the Weavers' Amalgamation, was a trade union in the United Kingdom. Initially, it operated in competition with the North East Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' Association in part of its area, and it was therefore nicknamed the Second Amalgamation.

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The union was founded in 1884 as the Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Weavers, with the participation of thirty-four local trade unions:

The majority of the union's members were female: in 1894, 45,000 of its 80,000 total membership were women. This was unusual; outside the cotton industry, very few women were members of trade unions. By 1937, membership had risen to 94,000, and the proportion of women had grown further, to a total of 75,000 of its members.

For many years, the union campaigned against the practice of steaming in cotton mills.

The union took its final name in 1923. In 1974, it merged with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers to form the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union.

Notable leaders of the union include secretary Thomas Birtwistle and president David Shackleton.

General Secretaries

1884: Thomas Birtwistle1885: William Henry Wilkinson1906: Joseph Cross1925: John C. Parker1927: Andrew Naesmith1953: Lewis Wright1968: Harry Kershaw1971: Fred Hague

Presidents

1884: David Holmes1906: David Shackleton1911: John William Ogden1930: James Hindle1937: James Bell1947: Carey Hargreaves1949: Lewis Wright1954: Harold Bradley1960: Ernest Thornton1964: Fred Hague1970: Hilda Unsworth

References

Amalgamated Weavers' Association Wikipedia


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