Portadown Textile Workers' Union

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The Portadown Textile Workers' Union was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union split from the Portadown, Banbridge and District Textile Workers' Union, which had been established in 1909. Always a very small union, it merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1933. [1]

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References

  1. Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria; Smethurst, John B. (1994). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. p. 285.

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