Catalogue description Plumbing Trades Union

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Details of TU/PLUMB
Reference: TU/PLUMB
Title: Plumbing Trades Union
Description:

Annual reports and quarterly returns, minutes of the National Executive Council, conference reports, Rules Revision Committee reports, circulars, other papers, branch records
Date: 1865-1977
Arrangement:

Series 1: Annual reports and quarterly returns
Series 2: Minutes of the National Executive Council
Series 3: Conference reports
Series 4: Rules Revision Committee reports
Series 5: Circulars
Series 6: Other papers
Series 7: Branch records including Bacup, Blackpool, Preston, Ramsbottom, Haslingden and Rawtenstall and Rossendale.
Held by: Working Class Movement Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 164 volumes, 1 box and 2 items
Access conditions:

Open for consultation
Administrative / biographical background:

The United Operative Plumbers Association of Great Britain and Ireland was formed in 1865. In 1911 the title was changed to the United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. It became the Plumber, Glaziers and Domestic Engineers Union in 1931 and the Plumbing Trades union in 1946. In 1968 it merged with the Electrical Trades Union to form the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication and Plumbing Union.
Source: Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 3, Gower Publishing Company Limited (Aldershot, Hants) 1987, page 75.

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