The Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation was a trade union federation in northern England.
History The federation was founded in 1906. By 1907, it brought together unions representing 126,700 members. Despite its name, it only included unions representing workers in the cotton industry; the wool industry and textile finishing were instead covered by the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade.Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, pp.75-76 Another similar organisation, the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, devoted itself to political work, and two of its members (the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives and the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners) never joined the federation.Lynden Briscoe, The Textile and Clothing Industries of the United Kingdom
By 1960, the federation's members were:
Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Protection Society Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Weavers' Association General Union of Loom Overlookers Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association
General Secretaries 1906: Tom Shaw 1919: Luke Bates 1943: Andrew Naesmith 1953: Lewis Wright 1968: Harry Kershaw c.1970: Arthur Howcroft 1971: Fred Hague 1980s: Harry Haworth
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