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was founded in or before 1860 by local trade unions, in Belfast, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield. Unions in Bradford and Stockport later joined, and in 1879 the Bradford and Manchester unions took the initiative in establishing a new, centralised union. This was the
175:, setting up its own offices in Manchester. The Manchester branch ran the union, with it electing the entire executive until 1914. Membership grew to about 3,500 by 1900, and reached 5,168 in 1915. In 1930, it was further boosted when the Litho Music Printers merged into the ASLP. 178:
In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a boom in lithographic printing, and although it led membership to increase to 11,000, the union worried that it would lose control of the trade. As a result, in 1969, it merged into the
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The union initially had about 500 members, but it grew rapidly under the leadership of
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representing printers and their assistants in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Central Association of Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers' Societies
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Central Association of Lithographic and Copper-Plate Printers' Societies
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Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries
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Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries
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Index

Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers and Auxiliaries
National Graphical Association
Manchester
George Davy Kelley
TUC
ITUC
P&KTF
trade union
George Davy Kelley
National Graphical Association
Labour Party
1906 UK general election
Manchester South West
George Davy Kelley
George Davy Kelley



Historical Directory of Trade Unions
18–19, 29
ISBN
085967990X
Categories
Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Lithographers' trade unions
Trade unions established in 1879
Trade unions disestablished in 1969
Trade unions based in Greater Manchester

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