The Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners, also known as the Amalgamation, was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed...
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The Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association (BOCSPA) was a trade union representing cotton spinners across central Lancashire...
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The Oldham Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association was a trade union representing cotton spinners across eastern Lancashire, in England. It was...
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Provincial Operative Cotton Spinners' Association was a trade union representing cotton spinners in the Preston area of Lancashire, in England. A union of cotton...
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Charles Schofield (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
as assistant secretary of the Bolton Spinners. This was affiliated to the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, and in 1920 he was elected...
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Protective Association of the United Operative Mule Spinners of New England, and in about 1861 it shortened its name to the Amalgamated Mule Spinners' Association...
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member of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners following his release. In 1828 Doherty was elected leader of the Manchester Spinners Union...
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William Wood (trade unionist, born 1873) (category Presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
the age of 11, and began working half-time at a cotton mill. He joined the Bolton and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Provincial Association, and began...
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Henry Boothman (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Around the same time, he won election as treasurer of the United Textile...
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James Mawdsley (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
became the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. At the time, cotton spinners were considered an elite group...
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member of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, and was elected as its president in 1878. He also served as treasurer of the United...
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Edward Judson (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
elected as president of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Judson was considered an effective leader of the spinners, leading the union...
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50% of cotton operatives were unionised while only 10% of wool and worsted workers. In Lancashire there were: The spinners union, the Amalgamated Association...
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Albert Knowles (category Presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
a cotton mill at the age of eleven, also joining a local union. In 1908, he moved to Oldham and transferred to the Oldham Operative Cotton Spinners' Association...
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Mule spinners' cancer or mule-spinners' cancer was a cancer, an epithelioma of the scrotum. It was first reported in 1887 in a cotton mule spinner. In...
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William Marsland (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
of Guardians. In 1904, Marsland again won a general secretaryship by examination, becoming leader of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners...
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Walter Lee (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
its general secretary. The Oldham Spinners were affiliated to the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, and in 1960 Lee was additionally...
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Fred Birchenough (category Presidents of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
as secretary of the Oldham Spinners. He was also elected to the executive of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, of which the Oldham...
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The Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 21) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which introduced a compulsory levy...
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James W. Whitworth (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
Labour Party. The Ashton-under-Lyne Spinners were affiliated to the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, and Whitworth was elected as its...
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the cotton textile industry. The union was founded in 1886 as the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives, by the amalgamation of a...
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Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers Amalgamated Felt Hat Trimers', Woolformers' and Allied Workers' Union Amalgamated Society of...
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John Kay (spinning frame) (redirect from John Kay of Warrington)
Arkwrights: spinners of fortune. Manchester University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7190-2646-1. Espinasse (2010), p. 395. Hills, R. L. (August 1998). "Kay (of Warrington)...
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John Kay (flying shuttle) (redirect from John Kay of Bury)
efficient method of salt production, and designing improvements to spinning technology: but that made him unpopular among Bury spinners. Also, fly-shuttle...
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Robert C. Handley (category Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress)
in a cotton mill as a half-timer at the age of ten. He eventually became a spinner, and joined the Preston Operative Cotton Spinners' Association, being...
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
co-managing a cotton processing/cloth manufacturing business and a calico-printing business, he became a millionaire, and lived, as one of his two main...
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Platt Brothers (category Defunct manufacturing companies of England)
day of their eight-day 1913 Royal Tour of Lancashire on 7 July 1913. In later years the company's fortunes mirrored those of the Lancashire cotton industry...
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Samuel Oldknow (category People from the Borough of Chorley)
Samuel Oldknow (1756–1828) was an English cotton manufacturer. Samuel Oldknow Jnr, the eldest son of Samuel Oldknow Sr and Margery Foster, was born on...
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The Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 54) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It established the Cotton Board and...
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1899 Oldham by-election (category Elections in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham)
secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, an unusual case of a Conservative who was an active trade unionist. The choice of Mawdsley...
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