Catalogue description Electrical Trades Union

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Details of TU/ELEC
Reference: TU/ELEC
Title: Electrical Trades Union
Description:

Annual reports, minutes of the Executive Council and Sub-Executive Committee, conference reports, rule books, other papers - Electrical Supply Industry Joint Industrial Council minute books, branch records
Date: 1905-1993
Arrangement:

Series 1: annual reports, 1922-1962 (not complete);
Series 2: minutes of the Executive Council and Sub-Executive Committee, 1912-1993 (not complete);
Series 3: conference reports, 1940-1985;
Series 4: rule books;
Series 5: other papers - Electrical Supply Industry Joint Industrial Council minute books;
Series 6: Branch records including Darlington, Littlehampton, Maryport, Middlesbrough, Newferry, Newport, Nottingham North, Peckham, Runcorn on Widnes, Stoke on Trent and Worthing.
Related material:

Other records are available at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick: Electrical Trades Union (GB 0152 MSS.387/ETU), 1920-1992 - including minutes of Executive Council, circulars, membership records, branch records, court cases involving the ETU, and papers relating to Sir Leslie Cannon. Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union (GB 0152 MSS.387) Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (GB 0152 MSS.259/AEEU)
Held by: Working Class Movement Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Electrical Trades Union
Physical description: 337 volumes, 24 items and 1 box
Access conditions:

Open for consultation.
Subjects:
  • Electrical industry
  • Trade unions
  • Electric industry workers
Unpublished finding aids: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 Electrical Trades union was formed in 1889 from a conference between the Amalgamated Society of Telegraph and Telephone Construction Men and the Union of Electrical Operatives. In 1968 it merged with the Plumbing Trades Union to form the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union. Source: Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions Volume 2, Gower Publishing Company Limited (Aldershot, Hants) 1984

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