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Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)
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Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)
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General Union of
Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association
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Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association
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General Union of
Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association
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General Warp
Dressers' Association of Lancashire and Yorkshire
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Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria; Smethurst, John B. (1994).
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Merged into
Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 1975
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Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 1952
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Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 1952
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Merged into Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen 1952
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North East Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society
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Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners
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1147:United Textile Factory Workers' Association
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367:Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation
122:representing workers involved in preparing
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27:Former trade union of the United Kingdom
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244:Merged into Nelson and District 1930s
667:Yates & Thom / Yates of Blackburn
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421:Historical Directory of Trade Unions
137:The origins of the union lay in the
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450:Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907
1102:Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union
647:William Roberts & Co of Nelson
192:Affiliates of the union included:
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1392:Textile and clothing trade unions
1122:General Union of Loom Overlookers
139:Federated Society of Warpdressers
41:Federated Society of Warpdressers
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1107:Amalgamated Weavers' Association
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537:Sidney Stott (later Sir Philip)
965:Amalgamated Cotton Mills Trust
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914:Thomas Whitehead and Brothers
617:W & J Galloway & Sons
718:John Hetherington & Sons
602:Clayton, Goodfellow & Co
703:Butterworth & Dickinson
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935:Fine Spinners and Doublers
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1346:John Kay (spinning frame)
1341:John Kay (flying shuttle)
986:Cotton-spinning machinery
758:Parr, Curtis & Madely
708:Curtis, Parr & Walton
587:Browett, Lindley & Co
266:Huddersfield and District
783:Textile Machinery Makers
763:British Northrop Loom Co
682:Woolstenhulmes & Rye
632:John Musgrave & Sons
512:Bradshaw Gass & Hope
391:1928: Cameron W. Doodson
1300:Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
960:James Burton & Sons
950:Combined Egyptian Mills
788:Tweedales & Smalley
298:Manchester and District
996:Magnetic ring spinning
991:DREF friction spinning
672:Willans & Robinson
577:Bateman & Sherratt
1173:Mule spinners' cancer
1142:The Textile Institute
1112:Cardroom Amalgamation
981:Textile manufacturing
793:T. Wildman & Sons
778:Taylor, Lang & Co
738:Howard & Bullough
728:John Pilling and Sons
662:Urmson & Thompson
572:Ashworth & Parker
394:1962: Walter Rothwell
330:Rochdale and District
215:Bradford and District
1156:Employment practices
974:Industrial processes
592:Buckley & Taylor
517:F.W. Dixon & Son
347:Skipton and District
249:Halifax and District
232:Chorley and District
1168:Kissing the shuttle
945:Bagley & Wright
884:George Augustus Lee
874:William Houldsworth
844:Nathaniel Eckersley
713:Dobson & Barlow
657:Scott & Hodgson
622:Benjamin Goodfellow
607:Earnshaw & Holt
380:General Secretaries
314:Nelson and District
183:employment exchange
65:34 Greenhill Road,
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824:Hugh Hornby Birley
768:Pemberton & Co
753:Mather & Platt
733:Harling & Todd
698:Brooks & Doxey
642:Petrie of Rochdale
637:J & W McNaught
582:Boulton & Watt
282:Leeds and District
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1295:Weavers' Triangle
1290:Queen Street Mill
1071:Lancashire boiler
1001:Open-end spinning
923:Limited companies
889:Charles Macintosh
829:Joseph Brotherton
388:1899: James White
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207:Membership (1907)
179:industrial action
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1041:Roberts Loom
909:John Rylands
879:John Kennedy
854:William Gray
849:John Fielden
834:James Burton
652:George Saxon
567:Ashton Frost
522:Edward Potts
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62:Headquarters
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1061:Rapier loom
1036:Water frame
904:Robert Peel
864:Samuel Greg
859:Hannah Greg
819:Hugh Birley
802:Mill owners
120:trade union
49:26 May 1894
38:Predecessor
1366:Categories
1224:Manchester
1219:Lancashire
1214:Derbyshire
1163:More looms
1066:Dandy loom
955:Courtaulds
894:Hugh Mason
500:Architects
490:Lancashire
399:References
204:Affiliated
155:Manchester
1264:Yorkshire
1249:Stockport
1194:LCC mills
612:Fairbairn
90:Members
54:Dissolved
1309:Pioneers
1254:Tameside
1239:Rochdale
1209:Cheshire
1031:Steaming
748:Asa Lees
167:Rochdale
143:Bradford
73:Location
1273:Museums
1244:Salford
1234:Preston
1026:Carding
426:212–220
201:Founded
175:worsted
171:Skipton
163:Preston
151:Halifax
147:Chorley
133:History
80:England
67:Bramley
46:Founded
1199:Bolton
493:cotton
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210:Notes
159:Nelson
118:was a
1259:Wigan
527:Stott
356:c.200
323:1,171
258:c.100
198:Union
107:NCTTF
1204:Bury
430:ISBN
353:1891
350:1891
336:1891
333:1890
320:1891
317:1886
304:1891
301:1882
285:1898
269:1907
255:1891
252:1887
238:1891
235:1890
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124:warp
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