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    Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) was a British New Model Trade Union based in London. The society was founded in 1818 as the London Bricklayers'...
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  • Manchester Unity of Bricklayers, also known as the Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers Society (MUOBS) and the United Operative Bricklayers' Trade Protection...
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  • Operative Masonry or The Worshipful Society of Free Masons, Rough Masons, Wallers, Slaters, Paviors, Plaisterers and Bricklayers or simply The Operatives...
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    work providing the designs of a certificate and banner for the Operative Bricklayers' Society. Ravenhill-Johnson, Annie (2014). The Art and Ideology of the...
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    Trades Confederation London Society of Compositors London Typographical Society Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society Mental Hospital and Institutional...
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  • he joined the Durban Bricklayers' Society, but soon moved to Pretoria, where he helped found the Operative Bricklayers' Society of South Africa. For five...
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    a British politician. Taylor worked as a bricklayer and became active in the Operative Bricklayers' Society. In the early 1890s, he was elected to sit...
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  • John Batchelor (trade unionist) (category British bricklayers)
    trade unionist. Batchelor worked as a bricklayer in Kensington. In 1868, he joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society, and soon afterwards, he was elected...
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  • start of 1921, it merged with the London Order of Bricklayers and the Manchester Unity of Bricklayers to form the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers...
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  • Textile Workers' Union Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) Port of Liverpool Staff Association Port of London Deal...
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    Jack Fitzgerald (socialist) (category British bricklayers)
    School of Building at Brixton. He was an active trade unionist (Operative Bricklayers' Society) and a cyclist, designing and building his own bicycles. Fitzgerald...
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  • migrated to Sydney, where he was soon involved in the United Operative Bricklayers' Society of New South Wales, serving as a delegate on the Trades and...
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    work for reasons outside their control. Coulson joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS) in 1852 and soon moved to London, winning election as...
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  • 1904, he was elected as treasurer of the local branch of the Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS). He also became active in the Labour Party, for which...
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  • aim of uniting all construction workers in the country. The Operative Bricklayers' Society merged in, and its former chair, Jimmy Briggs, became the union's...
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  • in 1921 when the Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales, the Operative Bricklayers' Society and the Manchester...
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  • John Murphy Friendly Society of Ironfounders 1881 Edwin Coulson Operative Bricklayers' Society 1882 Robert Austin Amalgamated Society of Engineers 1883 Thomas...
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  • unions: the Operative Society of Bricklayers, Friendly Society of Operative House Carpenters and Joiners, Operative United Painters, Operative Federal Plasterers...
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  • of the Openshaw Socialist Society in 1907. On completing his apprenticeship, he joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society and became an active trade...
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    George Hicks (trade unionist) (category British bricklayers)
    Democracy League. In 1912, he became National Organiser of the Operative Bricklayers' Society, serving as its General Secretary from 1919 to 1921. Subsequently...
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    Potter's Building Trades Conference and led by George Odger's Operative Bricklayers' Society. The unions agreed to demand a maximum working day of nine hours...
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  • Amalgamated Society of Engineers Robert Applegarth, Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Edwin Coulson, Operative Bricklayers' Society Daniel Guile...
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  • London, Wills completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society. He also joined the Social Democratic Federation...
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  • annual report of the TUC Of the unions in this section, the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and the Transport Salaried Staffs'...
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    shorter hours. In order to gain the support of both the OSM, the Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS), and the unorganised carpenters, a Central Board agreed...
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    George Howell (trade unionist) (category British bricklayers)
    Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh and Frederic Harrison. He joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society (a New Model Trade Union) in 1859, and played a part in leading...
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  • Tilers' and Roofing Operatives' Society Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society National Association...
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  • in the labour movement, including secretary of the Victorian Operative Bricklayers Society, president of the Melbourne Trades Hall Council, inaugural president...
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  • Production Workers (Novelty and Production Workers) International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) International Union of Elevator Constructors...
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    The Operative Plasterers and Allied Trades Society of Ireland (OPATSI) is a trade union representing plasterers and allied trades such as Tilers, Slaters...
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