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National Laundry Workers' Union

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National Laundry Workers' Union
Founded1917
Dissolved1940s
HeadquartersUnion Society Chambers, Edinburgh
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
1,000 (1920)
AffiliationsTUC

The National Laundry Workers' Union was a small trade union representing laundry workers in the United Kingdom, particularly around Edinburgh.

The union was in existence by the summer of 1917,[1] and by 1920 it had about 1,000 members, the large majority of them women.[2] J. H. Moore, its delegate to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), was elected to the General Council of the TUC in 1923,[3] but union membership had by this time dropped to only 327 and never recovered.[2] The union remained affiliated to the TUC until 1940, and appears to have dissolved before 1947.[4]

General Secretaries

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1917: G. Donaldson
1925: M. R. Whinman
1932: M. Loughlin
1936: J. H. Moore
1937: M. Stewart
1938: C. C. Dingwall

References

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  1. ^ MacDougall, Ian (2000). Voices from Work and Home. Mercat Press. pp. 154, 523. ISBN 1841830178.
  2. ^ a b Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. p. 229. ISBN 085967990X.
  3. ^ "Results of the Elections". Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress: 415. 1923.
  4. ^ Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress: 55. 1940. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)