Founded 1888 Members 3,000 (1917) Country England | Date dissolved 1917 Affiliation TUC, Labour Party | |
Merged into Iron and Steel Trades Confederation | ||
The National Steel Workers' Associated Engineering and Labour League was a trade union representing steel workers in England.
The union was founded in Middlesbrough in 1888, and quickly also built up a base in Sheffield. By 1895, it had 1,000 members, and this rose to 2,000 by 1913, and more than 3,000 by 1917. It was an early affiliate of the Labour Representation Committee, which later became the Labour Party.
The union affiliated to the loose Iron and Steel Trades Federation in 1913, and in 1917, it merged into the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation.
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