• The United Textile Factory Workers' Association (UTFWA) was a trade union federation in Great Britain. It was active from 1889 until 1975. The federation...
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    David Shackleton (category United Textile Factory Workers' Association-sponsored MPs)
    cotton worker at the age of nine. He rose through the ranks of the cotton weavers' union and became general secretary of the Textile Factory Workers Association...
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  • Jim Browning (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. In 1974, the Cardroom Amalgamation became part of the new Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, and...
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  • William Mullin (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    served as president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, a loose federation bringing together textile workers' unions. However, the Cardroom...
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  • Walter Gee (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    executive committee. The CWA was, in turn, affiliated to the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, and Gee was elected as its president in 1919, winning...
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    by the workers. This has forced the government to increase minimum wages of workers. Many textile factories in Bangladesh often compromise worker health...
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  • Archie Robertson (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    British trade unionist who served as president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association (UTFWA). Robertson came to prominence in 1922, when he...
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    manufacturing process, many of which are toxic or nonbiodegradable. Some textile factory workers handle dangerous chemicals every day, leading to increased occupational...
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  • Cephas Speak (category General secretaries of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    British trade union leader who served as secretary of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. Speak grew up in Burnley, and began working at a local...
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  • James Bell (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    of Textile Workers' Associations, and from 1925 to 1931 was secretary of the United Textile Factory Workers Association—known as "the cotton workers parliament...
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  • Henry Boothman (category General secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners)
    Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Around the same time, he won election as treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association and...
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  • International Federation of Textile Workers' Association (IFTWA) was a global union federation bringing together unions of textile workers, principally in Europe...
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    Robinson Graham (category United Textile Factory Workers' Association-sponsored MPs)
    by-election. He won the seat, but fell out with the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, which was sponsoring his candidacy, and the Labour Party...
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    William C. Robinson (politician) (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers, a position he held to the end of his life. He was president of the United Textile Factory Workers Association...
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  • William Thomasson (trade unionist) (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives. From 1924, he also served as president of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. He was...
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  • Mineworkers' Union, and the Dutch Catholic Clothing and Textile Workers' Union, to form the Industrial Workers' Union NKV. "Nederlandse Katholieke Bond van Werknemers...
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    James Mawdsley (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    the Northern Counties Weavers Amalgamation to form the United Textile Factory Workers Association; the collaboration was brought about because the unions...
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  • secretary by 1930. The Beamers were affiliated to the United Textile Factory Workers' Association (UTFWA), and this organisation sponsored him as a Labour...
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  • The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 was the largest textile strike in the labor history...
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    Tom Shaw (politician) (category United Textile Factory Workers' Association-sponsored MPs)
    1923–1925. He was secretary of the International Federation of Textile Workers' Associations on a part-time basis from 1911 to 1924 and then full-time from...
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  • council of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, and represented it at the International Federation of Textile Workers' Associations. He retired...
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  • of the Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation. GULO was affiliated to the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, and Duxbury served as its...
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  • William John Tout (category United Textile Factory Workers' Association-sponsored MPs)
    was affiliated. He also served on the executive of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. Tout stood as a UTFWA-sponsored candidate in Oldham...
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  • Thomas Birtwistle (category General secretaries of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    Birtwistle (16 October 1833 – 22 March 1912) was an English trade unionist and factory inspector. Born in Great Harwood, Lancashire, he worked in a cotton mill...
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  • The International Textile and Garment Workers' Federation (ITGWF) was a global union federation of unions representing workers involved in manufacturing...
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    Revolution there was a mass movement of workers towards Manchester to take up employment in the cotton spinning and textile industry. This created a demand for...
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  • Harold Chorlton (category Presidents of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    later, he was additionally elected as President of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, which represented the cotton unions in political matters...
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  • the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in the 1990s to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). UNITE merged...
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    Joseph Cross (trade unionist) (category General secretaries of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association)
    also elected as secretary of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, a federation of most cotton workers' unions which focused on political matters;...
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    The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the...
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