National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives

National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives

The National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

The union was founded in 1873, when many riveters and finishers left the Amalgamated Association of Boot and Shoemakers (AABS). They were dissatisfied by their low status within the old union, and instead formed the National Union of Boot and Shoe Rivetters and Finishers (NUBSRF). Membership of the new union grew rapidly, reaching 10,000 by 1887. The General Union of Clickers and Rough-stuff Cutters merged with the NUBSRF in 1892, but most of its members left again in 1895.[1]

The union organised a 34-week strike in 1897, in support of a minimum wage and a 54-hour week, but this was unsuccessful. It renamed itself as the "National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives", and joined the General Federation of Trade Unions the following year. It absorbed the AABS in 1916, and membership rose over 100,000 by 1920, although it soon fell to around 80,000.[1] Members in the Republic of Ireland left in 1953, to form the Irish Shoe and Leather Workers Union.[2]

A major decline in the British shoe-making industry led the union to merge with the Amalgamated Society of Leather Workers, the National Union of Glovers and Leather Workers and the National Union of Leather Workers and Allied Trades in 1971, forming National Union of Footwear, Leather and Allied Trades.[1]

General Secretaries

1874: Thomas Smith
1878: George Sedgwick
1886: William Inskip
1899: W. Boyd Hornidge
1908: Edward L. Poulton
1930: George Chester
1949: Lionel Poole
1960: Richard Gregson

General Presidents

1893: W. Boyd Hornidge
1899: Charles Freak
1910: Thomas Frederick Richards
1930: William R. Townley
1938: Len Smith
1944: James Crawford
1957: Sydney A. Robinson

References

  1. ^ a b c "National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives", Trade Union Ancestors
  2. ^ John B. Smethurst and Peter Carter, Historical directory of trade unions, vol.6, p.101

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