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Operative Bricklayers' Society

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47: 331: 310: 164:. The OBS was defeated, and subsequently only developed very gradually outside London. In 1867, the union increased contributions from 3d to 10½d a week, and membership dropped from 5,000 to 2,000. However, in the long run, this improved the union's financial position and strength, and by 1877 it had 6,749 members. 156:. They led a strike in 1851 which won an early finish on Saturdays, and in 1854 succeeded in gaining a wage increase for bricklayers in the capital. In 1859 the union became embroiled in a dispute with employers over the introduction of a nine-hour working day, and the consequential 148:
The society was founded in 1818 as the London Bricklayers' Society, but by 1829 had developed into a national operative union. By the 1840s the union had about 1,400 members, roughly 2% of the total number of bricklayers in the country at the time.
172: 194:, and hung in the Bricklayers' Head Office in London. It shows the society's work, proudly depicting the bricklayers' trade along with symbols of truth, architecture and science. 168: 392: 387: 407: 368: 412: 300: 176: 57: 417: 397: 361: 157: 46: 213: 161: 113: 219: 354: 190:
holds the original emblem painting of the Operative Bricklayers' Society. It was painted in 1869 by Royal Academician
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By 1900 the union had 38,830 members, but roughly half were based in London. In 1921 the OBS merged with the
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In 1848, twelve former members of the Operative Bricklayers refounded the organisations as the
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Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales
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This article related to a United Kingdom trade union is a
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London Order of Bricklayers

Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
United Kingdom
George Howell
British
New Model Trade Union
London
London builders' strike
George Howell
Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society
Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales
Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
People's History Museum
Manchester
Arthur Waudby
Edwin Coulson
John Batchelor
George Hicks


Collection Highlights, Bricklayers' Emblem




Catalogue of the OBS archives
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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Organized labour portal

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