Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association

The Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association (SSA) was a trade union representing shipbuilders in the United Kingdom.

Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association
Merged intoUnited Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers
Founded1882
Dissolved1963
Headquarters8 Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
19,350 (1907)[1]
AffiliationsTUC, CSEU, Labour

History

The union was founded in 1882 as the Associated Society of Shipwrights, by eleven local unions in Scotland and North East England. Seven further unions in Scotland and North West England quickly joined the new association. The union changed its name to the Associated Shipwrights' Society, and gradually other unions around the UK affiliated.[2]

In 1908, the union merged with the Ship Constructive Association and the Amalgamated Society of Drillers and Hole Cutters, and renamed itself as the Ship Constructive and Shipwrights' Association, later changing this to the "Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association". At the beginning of 1963, it merged with the United Society of Boilermakers, Shipbuilders and Structural Workers.[2]

Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in several Parliamentary elections.[3]

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1906 general electionChathamJohn Hagan Jenkins6,69262.51
DundeeAlexander Wilkie6,83323.32
1910 Jan general electionChathamJohn Hagan Jenkins6,13045.32
DundeeAlexander Wilkie10,36532.92
1910 Dec general electionDundeeAlexander Wilkie8,95729.32
1918 general electionDundeeAlexander Wilkie24,82236.12
GillinghamWilliam Tapp4,70525.92
1922 general electionPerthWilliam Westwood4,65118.93[4]

General Secretaries
1882: Alexander Wilkie
1928: Frank Purdy (acting)
1929: William Westwood
1945: John Willcocks
1948: Sydney Ombler
1958: Arthur Williams

References
  1. Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. pp. 82–101.
  2. Shipconstructors and Shipwrights Association, Working Class Movement Library
  3. Dougan, David (1975). The Shipwrights. Newcastle: Frank Graham.
  4. "Appendix III: List of sanctioned candidates, June, 1922". Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 116–126. 1922.

Further reading
  • Dougan, David The shipwrights: a history of the Shipconstructors' and Shipwrights' Association, 1882–1963. Newcastle upon Tyne: Graham, 1975. ISBN 0859830438.
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