United Garment Workers' Trade Union

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Not to be confused with United Garment Workers of America.

Offices of the Tailors' Machinists' and Pressers' Trade Union, a forerunner to the UGWTU in Sheepscar, Leeds.

The United Garment Workers' Trade Union (UGWTU) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1915, with the merger of the

Scottish Operative Tailors and Tailoresses Association to form the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.[2]

The union's general secretary was Joseph Young, its financial secretary was Moses Sclare, and its organiser was Andrew Conley.[3]

References

  1. Sidney Webb
    (1928), The Clothing Workers of Great Britain, p. 132
  2. ^ Tailors' unions - National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, Working Class Movement Library
  3. ISBN 9780859679008
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