National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers

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National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers
Merged intoNational Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers
Founded1911
Dissolved1921
Headquarters9 Independent Buildings, Fargate, Sheffield
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
7,000 (1912[1])
AffiliationsTrades Union Congress

The National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers was a trade union representing bookbinders and related workers in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1911 when the Bookbinders' and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union merged with the London Consolidated Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, the Vellum Account Book Binders' Trade Society and the Day Working Bookbinders of London.[2] Many Dublin-based members of the union left in 1920 to form the Irish Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Trade Union.[3]

In 1921, the union merged with the National Union of Printing and Paper Workers to form the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers.[2]

General Secretaries[edit]

1911: James Kelly[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Annual Report of the 1912 Trades Union Congress, p.15
  2. ^ a b Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.55
  3. ^ Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, p.84
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