National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers explained

National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers
Founded:1911
Dissolved:1921
Merged:National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers
Members:7,000 (1912)
Location Country:United Kingdom
Affiliation:Trades Union Congress
Headquarters:9 Independent Buildings, Fargate, Sheffield

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.[1] Many Dublin-based members of the union left in 1920 to form the Irish Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' Trade Union.[2]

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.

General Secretaries

1911: James Kelly[3]

References

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

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