National Glass Bottle Makers' Society Explained

The National Glass Bottle Makers' Society was a trade union representing workers involved in the manufacture of glass bottles in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in Leeds in 1903 as a split from the National Flint Glass Makers' Society of Great Britain and Ireland.^[1] It affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), at which time it was led by F. Swann and had 987 members.^[2] It soon left the TUC but remained active until it merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1940.

See also

• List of trade unions
• Transport and General Workers' Union
• TGWU amalgamations

References

• Arthur Ivor Marsh, Victoria Ryan. Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Volume 5 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., Jan 1, 2006 pg. 435

Specific

1. [University of Warwick]
2. John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.6, p.82