The Cardroom Amalgamation or Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA) was a British trade union which existed between 1886 and 1974. It represented workers...
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Joe King (trade unionist) (category General Secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives)
local cotton mill. He joined the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing and Ring Room Operatives (Cardroom Amalgamation), and also the Labour Party;...
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South East Lancashire Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association (redirect from South East Lancashire Cardroom Operatives' Association)
White argued that the Oldham Amalgamation was too limited in scope, and that a new, national Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA) was needed. He won the...
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was a British trade union leader, who served as President of the Cardroom Amalgamation and Chair of the General Federation of Trade Unions. Frayne was...
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Ashton-under-Lyne, and was active in the Labour Party. His union, the Cardroom Amalgamation of which it formed a part, and the United Textile Factory Workers'...
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and Kindred Trades Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation Irish Bakers' National Amalgamated Union Humber Amalgamated Steam Trawler Engineers...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Textile Factory Workers' Association. In 1974, the Cardroom Amalgamation became part of the new Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, and Browning was elected...
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became involved in the Cardroom Amalgamation, and was soon secretary of the local branch of its Oldham affiliate. The Amalgamation was nearly bankrupted...
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Bolton and District Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives' Provincial Association (redirect from Bolton Cardroom Union)
until 1926, taking the union into the new Cardroom Amalgamation, although it did not take part in the amalgamation's collective bargaining for many years....
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a member of the executive of the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives (Cardroom Amalgamation), to which his Mossley union was affiliated...
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Hyde and District Card, Blowing and Ring Frame Operatives' Association (redirect from Hyde and District Cardroom Workers' Association)
constituent of the Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA), which for the first time proved an enduring association of local cardroom workers' unions. As...
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own members' wages. The union was a founder constituent of the Cardroom Amalgamation in 1886, but at the time it had only 91 members, despite having...
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Alfred Roberts (trade unionist) (category General Secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives)
(Cardroom Amalgamation), and by the age of thirty was the union's Preston secretary. In 1935, Roberts was elected as General Secretary of the Cardroom...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Rochdale Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association (redirect from Rochdale Cardroom Association)
members in 1886. That year, it became a founder member of the Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA), and its membership rapidly increased, reaching 1,800...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Northern Textile and Allied Workers' Union (category Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations)
Association. That same year, it was a founding constituent of the Cardroom Amalgamation and, although it was suspended for not paying dues in 1891, it was...
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Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room and Ring Frame Operatives' Association (redirect from Oldham Cardroom Association)
played a leading role in founding the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives (Cardroom Amalgamation), Silk becoming its first president...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Blackburn, where he worked as a weaver and a cardroom operative. He joined the Blackburn Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation, and soon became its secretary. In 1927...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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the council. In 1953, Chorlton was elected as President of the Cardroom Amalgamation, to which the Rochdale union was affiliated. Five years later, he...
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William Mullin (category General Secretaries of the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives)
federation bringing together textile workers' unions. However, the Cardroom Amalgamation left the association in 1913 after its member William Henry Carr...
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Textile Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union Amalgamated Weavers' Association Cardroom Amalgamation General Union of Lancashire and...
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of his branch and also serving on the national executive of the Cardroom Amalgamation from the age of 24. He soon moved to work full-time for the union...
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