Catalogue description General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers

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Details of TU/OVERLOOKA
Reference: TU/OVERLOOKA
Title: General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers
Description:

Almanacks and handbooks, minutes of general meetings, Executive Committee meetings and Annual General Meetings, accounts, correspondence, member's card and agreements on wages and conditions, Preston and district minute books
Date: 1891-2006
Arrangement:

Series 1: Almanacks and handbooks, 1891-1982
Series 2: Minutes of general meetings, Executive Committee meetings and Annual General Meetings, 1929-1998
Series 3: Accounts, correspondence, member's card and agreements on wages and conditions
Series 4: Preston and district minute books
Held by: Working Class Movement Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers
Physical description: 16 volumes, 3 bundles, 5 files and 19 items
Access conditions:

Open for consultation.
Subjects:
  • Trade unions
  • Textile industry
  • Cotton textile industry
  • Weavers
Unpublished finding aids: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 General union of Associations of Loom Overlookers is the federal organisation for cotton industry overlookers. It was formed on 17 May 1885 and was made up of several loom overlookers associations.
Source: Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Scolar Press (Aldershot, Hants) 1994, pages 157-8

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