Catalogue description National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association

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Title: National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association
Description:

Annual reports, monthly reports, Executive Committee minute books, rule books, national labour agreements, other papers including correspondence, out of work book, cash book, Kinsleigh Convalescent Home and Instrument of transfer between the General Union of Bedding Trade Workers and the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades, branch records
Date: 1902-1961
Arrangement:

Series 1: Annual reports, 1902-1942, 1945-1952 and monthly reports, 1905-1940;
Series 2: Executive Committee minute books, 1902-1940;
Series 3: Rule books, 1904-1945;
Series 4: National labour agreements, 1944-1946;
Series 5: Other papers including correspondence, out of work book, cash book, Kinsleigh Convalescent Home and Instrument of transfer between the General Union of Bedding Trade Workers and the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades;
Series 6: Branch records including Belfast branch, Birmingham and district, Bristol and the South West, Cheltenham branch, East Midlands Counties, Glasgow and district, High Wycombe and district, Hull district, London district, Manchester and the North West, Northern Ireland, Sheffield district, Sunderland and Yorkshire.
Related material:

Other records are available at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick: National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades’ Association (GB 0152 MSS.192/FT/A) 1902-1947 - Annual reports, 1902-45 (incomplete); monthly reports, bulletins, 1915-47 (incomplete)
Held by: Working Class Movement Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades' Association
Physical description: 69 volumes and 85 items
Access conditions:

Open for consultation.
Subjects:
  • Trade unions
  • Furniture industry
  • Furniture makers
Unpublished finding aids:

The full catalogue is available online on the Working Class Movement Library's Web Site - www.wcml.org.uk/catalogue/adlib-catalogue

Administrative / biographical background:

The National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association was formed in 1902 by an amalgamation between the Alliance Cabinet Makers Association and the United Operative Cabinet and Chairmakers Society of Scotland. Between 1920-1971 several other unions joined. In 1911 the Amalgamated Society of Gilders (1809) and Amalgamated Society of French Polishers (1894) joined. In 1947 the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association amalgamated with the Amalgamated Union of Upholsterers to form the National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives (NUFTO).

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