Ceramic and Allied Trades Union collection
TitleCeramic and Allied Trades Union collection
ReferenceTU/CERAMIC
Date
1866-1998
CreatorCeramic and Allied Trades Union, National Amalgamated Society of Male and Female Pottery Workers, National Society of Pottery Workers
Production date 1866 - 1998
Scope and ContentThe collection contains minutes of the National Executive Council, annual delegation meetings and other committees. There are volumes of payments books, membership returns, agreements and prices lists and a series of newspaper cuttings books. Other papers include files on negotiations with companies, lodges, apprenticeships, World War Two and the pottery industry and legal cases. There is a series of files relating to trades and occupational groupings in the pottery industry that contain papers on practices, agreements and disputes.
Extent54 volumes and 19 boxes
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyThe Ceramic and Allied Trades Union (CATU) can trace its origin from the formation of the National Amalgamated Society of Male and Female Pottery Workers (NASMFPW) in 1906. This changed its name to the National Society of Pottery Workers (NSPW) in 1917. Previously there had been many small, disparate and mainly craft-based unions which did not carry much punch and were sometimes in conflict with each other. The process of amalgamation was largely completed when the union representing the ovenmen joined in 1920. The National Society of Pottery Workers became 'CATU' in 1970, and has recently become part of Unity.
Persons keywordCeramic and Allied Trades Union
SubjectPottery industry, Trade unions
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfonds
Normal locationY15-Y17 (Room 23) and AF CATU Boxes 1-19 (Room 35)