United Patternmakers' Association

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United Patternmakers' Association
Merged into Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers-Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section
Founded1872
Dissolved1984
Headquarters15 Cleve Road, West Hampstead
Location
Members
6,842 (1907 [1] )
9,571 (1980) [2]
Key people
 George Buchanan
PublicationPatternmaker
Affiliations TUC, CSEU, LMTU, Labour

The United Patternmakers Association (UPA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

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History

The association was founded in 1872 to represent skilled patternmakers in England, [3] following a strike by patternmakers along the River Tyne and River Wear for a nine-hour day. [4] Originally based in London, it transferred its headquarters to Manchester in 1896, to Leeds in 1903, then to Eccles in 1908, returning to London in 1912. [5]

The Associated Patternmakers of Scotland union merged into the UPA in 1912. [5] In 1918, the union balloted its members on joining the new Amalgamated Engineering Union, but this was not approved. [6]

During the 1930s, George Buchanan was the union's president, and the union focussed considerable attention on anti-fascist activity. It was initially sympathetic to the Independent Labour Party's split from the Labour Party, although by 1935 Buchanan's union backing was withdrawn. [7] It retained a strong craft unionist approach, and resisted the prevailing trend of admitting workers in allied trades. [8]

In 1969, the union renamed itself the Association of Patternmakers and Allied Craftsmen. [4] By 1979, its membership stood just under 10,000, mostly in the English Midlands. Only three members were women. [3] In 1984, it merged into the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section. [5]

Election results

The union sponsored candidates in numerous Parliamentary elections between 1909 and 1974, most of whom were elected. Almost all ran as Labour Party candidates, the exception being Buchanan in 1931 who was refused Labour Party endorsement, and instead stood for the Independent Labour Party. He ran for that party again in 1935, on this occasion without official backing from the union, although it did set up a voluntary fund for his support, to which members could choose to donate. By 1945, he had returned to the Labour Party. [9]

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1909 by-election Sheffield Attercliffe Joseph Pointer 3,53127.51
1910 Jan general election Sheffield Attercliffe Joseph Pointer 7,75556.11
1910 Dec general election Sheffield Attercliffe Joseph Pointer 6,53255.01
1922 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 16,47854.51
1923 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 17,21167.21
1924 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 19,48065.91
1929 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 25,13474.81
1931 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 19,27858.11
Stoke Ellis Smith 13,26430.32
1935 general election Stoke Ellis Smith 20,99252.71
1945 general election Glasgow Gorbals George Buchanan 21,07380.01
Stoke Ellis Smith 29,55169.11
1950 general election Stoke-on-Trent South Ellis Smith 34,33964.51
1951 general election Stoke-on-Trent South Ellis Smith 35,26165.81
1955 general election Stoke-on-Trent South Ellis Smith 31,00363.61
1959 general election Stoke-on-Trent South Ellis Smith 29,57859.31
1964 general election Stoke-on-Trent South Ellis Smith 28,92860.61
1974 Feb general election Stretford Kenneth Anthony19,64135.22

Officials

General Secretaries

1872: R. C. Douglas [10]
1872: R. Reay [10]
1884: William Mosses [10]
1917: Alan Findlay [10]
1941: Wilfred Beard
1967: Samuel McLaren
1969: Gerry Eastwood

Presidents

1872: N. Charlton [10]
1876: C. Mothersdale [10]
1880: S. T. Taylor [10]
1884: R. Brown [10]
1884: T. Souter [10]
1885: John Livingston [10]
1888: George E. Wilson [10]
1891: Thomas Goodall [10]
1892: Joseph W. Field [10]
1893: Joseph Taylor [10]
1894: William Williams [10]
1895: Fred W. Kent [10]
1896: John Mills [10]
1897: Ed Appleby [10]
1899: J. M. Whittaker [10]
1900: Thomas Battison [10]
1901: J. M. Whittaker [10]
1902: A. Mackenzie [10]
1903: Arthur Pearson [10]
1909: John Mills [10]
1913: Albert E. Wardale [11]
1932: George Buchanan
1946: Ellis Smith
1966: Victor MacDonald
1977:

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References

  1. ↑ Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. pp. 82–101.
  2. ↑ Eaton, Jack; Gill, Colin (1981). The Trade Union Directory. London: Pluto Press. pp. 101–102. ISBN   0861043502.
  3. 1 2 Arthur Ivor Marsh, Trade Union Handbook, p.260
  4. 1 2 Arthur Ivor Marsh, Concise Encyclopedia of Industrial Relations, p.224
  5. 1 2 3 John B. Smethurst and Alan Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 6, pp.204-205
  6. ↑ Jefferys, James B. (1970). The Story of the Engineers. Edinburgh: Reprints in Social and Economic History. p. 193.
  7. ↑ Matthew Worley, Labour's Grass Roots, p.61
  8. ↑ Hugh Armstrong Clegg, Trade Union Officers, p.16
  9. ↑ Parker, James (2017). Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 (PDF). Exeter: University of Exeter. p. 125.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Mosses, William (1922). The History of the United Pattern Makers' Association. London: United Patternmakers' Association.
  11. ↑ United Patternmakers' Association, "Obituary", Annual Report (1963)
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