Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers

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Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
PredecessorCentral Association of Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers' Societies
Merged into National Graphical Association
Founded1879
Dissolved1969
Headquarters137 Dickenson Road, Rusholme, Manchester
Location
  • United Kingdom and Ireland
Members
11,895 (1968)
Key people
George Davy Kelley (Gen Sec)
Affiliations TUC, ITUC, P&KTF

The Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers (ASLP) was a trade union representing printers and their assistants in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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History

The Central Association of Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers' Societies was founded in or before 1860 by local trade unions, in Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield. Unions in Bradford and Stockport later joined, and in 1879 the Bradford and Manchester unions took the initiative in establishing a new, centralised union. This was the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries, based in Manchester. [1]

The union initially had about 500 members, but it grew rapidly under the leadership of George Davy Kelley, setting up its own offices in Manchester. The Manchester branch ran the union, with it electing the entire executive until 1914. Membership grew to about 3,500 by 1900, and reached 5,168 in 1915. In 1930, it was further boosted when the Litho Music Printers merged into the ASLP. [1]

In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a boom in lithographic printing, and although it led membership to increase to 11,000, the union worried that it would lose control of the trade. As a result, in 1969, it merged into the National Graphical Association. [1]

Election results

The union sponsored its general secretary as a Labour Party candidate in the 1906 UK general election. [2]

ConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
Manchester South West George Davy Kelley 4,10158.81

General Secretaries

1879: George Davy Kelley
1912: Thomas Sproat
1931: F. F. Boaler
1937: R. T. Williams
1958: Stanley Gilman
1960: Ron Emerick

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp.  18–19, 29. ISBN   085967990X.
  2. Frank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, pp.290-292