Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association
April 12, 2024
The Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association was a trade union representing cotton mill workers in the Bolton area of Lancashire in England. The union was the first in the Lancashire cotton industry to appoint a woman as its full-time leader.
Bolton Weavers' Association
Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association
Merged into
North West Lancashire, Durham and Cumbria Textile Workers' Union
The union was founded in 1865 as the Excelsior Friendly Society of Toilet and Marseilles Quilt Weavers by Power, with the aim of regulating who was able to start working in the industry. In 1878, it became the Bolton Power Loom Weavers' Association. In 1902 it became the "Bolton and District Weavers', Winders' and Warpers' Association", and eventually it became the Bolton and District Weavers', Winders', Warpers' and Loom-Sweepers' Association.[1]
In 1884, the union was a founder member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, but it left in 1885, and did not rejoin until 1892. In 1888, it was able to appoint its first full-time general secretary, William Melling, who was succeeded by Cephas Speak.[1]Alice Foley began doing the job of assistant secretary in 1917, but was refused the job title, instead becoming "woman officer". She eventually succeeded Speak in 1948, becoming the first woman to become the full-time secretary of a cotton industry trade union.[2][3] Foley was, in turn, succeeded by another prominent woman, Hilda Unsworth.[4]
^ abcdMarsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria; Smethurst, John B. (1994). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 4. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN9780859679008.
^Schwarzkopf, Jutta (2018). Unpicking Gender: The Social Construction of Gender in the Lancashire Cotton Weaving Industry, 1880-1914. Routledge. ISBN1351143662.
^"Bolton Weavers appoint woman secretary". Manchester Guardian. 1 November 1948.
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