The National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1873 and 1971. It represented workers...
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International Federation of Boot and Shoe Operatives and Leather Workers was a global union federation representing unions of shoemakers and leather workers,...
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Alfred Dobbs (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
1906 and 1910, although he moved to Leeds in 1909. There, he immediately took an interest in the Leeds branch of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives...
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Len Smith (trade unionist) (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
trade unionist and politician. Smith joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) in 1897, and became very active in the union. In 1905, he...
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William Inskip (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
in the bootmaking trade. He became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), of which he was elected treasurer in 1880, then general...
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Edward Kell (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
salary, so he resigned and began running a business. Fox, Alan (1958). A History of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives: 1874-1957. Oxford: Basil...
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W. Boyd Hornidge (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
Fox, A History of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, p.258 "W. B. Hornidge", The Who's Who of Radical Leicester Details of Past Congresses...
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National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), which was based in Britain. It initially consisted of the whole 5,000 members in the Republic of Ireland...
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John Buckle (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Buckle was an official in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, and was the first Labour alderman...
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Charles Freak (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
and joined the new National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO). He soon came to prominent in the union, representing it at the Trades Union Congress...
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Thomas Frederick Richards (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
trade union work and local politics. He was general president of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives from 1910–1929 and a member of the Management...
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Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives was a trade union representing workers in the footwear trade in the Rossendale area of Lancashire...
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Edward L. Poulton (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
Northampton and worked making boots and shoes from an early age. He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) in 1887, and was appointed...
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Humphrey Attewell (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
and politician. Attewell was born in Northampton. He served in World War I, then on his return became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives...
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became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), and also joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF), and in 1897 launched a...
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Sydney Robinson (trade unionist) (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), and became a full-time officer in 1939, national organizer in 1947, and Assistant General...
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W. R. Townley (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
of ten to work at an engineering firm, later moving to a boot-making company. He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), and became...
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James Crawford (trade unionist) (category General presidents of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), and was elected as its President in 1944. He became known as an expert on automation, and he led...
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Arthur Allen (Labour politician) (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
occupation and became active in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives which he had joined in 1908. Under the sponsorship of the union he obtained...
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George Chester (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
from the age of thirteen. He joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives the following year, and from 1915 was assistant secretary of his branch...
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Lionel Poole (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
to Levi Samuel Mitchell Poole and Lucy Poole. He came to prominence in the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO), becoming branch secretary...
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and it began to grow, reaching 12,099 members by 1954. In 1971, the union merged with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, National Union of...
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J. W. Murby (category Independent Labour Party National Administrative Committee members)
then at the Co-operative Self Help Boot and Shoe Works, and then at the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO). Murby was a keen Methodist...
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Walter Smith (British politician) (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
Member of Parliament (MP) who represented Wellingborough and Norwich. He was an organiser with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. Smith was...
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Leicester’s first May Day demonstration in 1893 and becoming a delegate for the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO). George Cores is remembered for...
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George Sedgwick (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
1868", Annual Report of the 1920 Trades Union Congress, p.5 Alan Fox, A history of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1847-1957, p.119 v t e...
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Frederick Gould (category National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives-sponsored MPs)
local secretary of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. In 1908 he became an unpaid organiser for the Independent Labour Party and started several...
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proposal from the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) to amalgamate, on the basis that the NUG's status as the majority union on the Glove Manufacturing...
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National Union of Agricultural Workers National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives...
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Thomas Smith (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives)
Radicalism, cooperation and socialism, p.41 Alan Fox, A history of the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives, 1847-1957, p.49 Trades Union Congress, "Parliamentary...
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