| Administrative History | The first national organisation of workers in the plumbing industry, formed in 1832, was short-lived; but it was successfully re-constituted as the United Operative Plumbers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland in 1865. The name was changed to the Plumbers', Glaziers, and Domestic Engineers' Union by July 1938, and by February 1953 it had become the Plumbing Trades Union.
By June 1866, a branch (or lodge) had been formed in Aberdeen, and by 1938, a separate lodge also existed in Inverurie.
Further information about the development of the trade union movement and the history of individual trade unions in Aberdeen can be found in William Diack, 'History of the Trades Council and the Trade Union Movement in Aberdeen' (Aberdeen: Aberdeen Trades Council, 1939), and in Kenneth D. Buckley, 'Trade Unionism in Aberdeen 1870 - 1900' (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1955). Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, 'Historical Directory of Trade Unions' , 4 vols (Aldershot: Gower, 1980 - 1984) also contains useful information about the development of individual unions, at both the national and local level. Summarised details from each of these sources has been used in compiling this collection level description. |
| Description | This collection contains records of the Aberdeen branch of the Plumbing Trades' Union and its predecessors, and records of the Inverurie lodge of the Plumbers', Glaziers' and Domestic Engineers' Union.
Plumbing Trades' Union (Aberdeen Branch):
minutes, 1949 - 1954; proposition (or membership) books, 1866 - 1916; Out of Work book, 1953 - 1958; papers concerning meeting of Rules Revision Committee, 1951; printed papers and pamphlets, 1941 - 1958 (including rules and regulations, and Standing Orders of the Union, and reports re. working conditions in plumbing and kindred trades); Journal of the Plumbing Trades Union , 1950 - 1954 (incomplete).
Plumbers', Glaziers and Domestic Engineers' Union (Inverurie Lodge):
Treasurer's cash book, 1938 - 1942. |
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