Typographical Association

The Typographical Association (TA) was a trade union representing typographers in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Typographical Association
PredecessorNational Typographical Association
Merged intoNational Graphical Association
Founded1848
Dissolved1964
HeadquartersBeechwood, Oak Drive, Fallowfield, Manchester
Location
  • United Kingdom and Ireland
Members
38,277 (1939)[1]
PublicationTypographical Circular
AffiliationsTUC, ITUC, P&KTF, IGF, Labour

History

The National Typographical Association collapsed in 1848, and delegates from across Yorkshire and Lancashire met at Angel Street in Sheffield to found the Provincial Typographical Association, intended to recreate the former Northern Typographical Union and to focus on paying benefits to members on strike. The union grew gradually from 481 members at the end of 1849 to 5,300 in 1877. In that year, it merged with a related relief association and dropped "Provincial" from its title.

Based in Manchester, the union focussed on demanding members serve a seven-year apprenticeship. In 1894, it began admitting women. In the 1910s, the Association established a branch in London, but the Trades Union Congress instituted arbitration which restricted it from a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the rival London Society of Compositors having rights to organise in the city.

By 1946, membership had reached 13,958.[2] In 1964, the Association merged with the London Typographical Society to create the National Graphical Association.

Election results

The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in several Parliamentary elections, many of whom won election.

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1906 general electionNorwichGeorge Henry Roberts11,05937.51
1910 Jan general electionNorwichGeorge Henry Roberts11,15928.72
1910 Dec general electionNorwichGeorge Henry Roberts10,00335.82
1917 by-electionNorwichGeorge Henry RobertsunopposedN/A1
1918 general electionWest BromwichFrederick Roberts11,57254.01
1922 general electionBuckinghamOwen Connellan7,34326.32
West BromwichFrederick Roberts14,21050.61
1923 general electionWest BromwichFrederick Roberts12,91044.81
1924 general electionWest BromwichFrederick Roberts15,38451.61
1929 general electionWest BromwichFrederick Roberts19,62152.11[3]
1931 general electionWest BromwichFrederick Roberts17,20444.42[4]
1935 general electionBlackburnGeorge Henry Walker34,42323.84[5]
West BromwichFrederick Roberts19,11351.31[5]
1945 general electionBristol SouthWilliam Wilkins24,92958.81[6]
RossendaleGeorge Henry Walker15,74143.61[6]
1950 general electionBristol SouthWilliam Wilkins23,45659.91[7]
WoodfordSeymour Hills18,74030.02[7]
1951 general electionBristol SouthWilliam Wilkins24,44463.31[8]
1955 general electionBristol SouthWilliam Wilkins24,95464.11[9]
1959 general electionBristol SouthWilliam Wilkins27,01060.81[10]

In both the 1910 elections, Roberts was elected by taking second place in a two-seat constituency.

Leadership

General Secretaries

1849: Josephus Speak
1865: Henry Roberts
1869: Henry Slatter
1897: Richard Hackett
1900: A. W. Jones
1900: Herbert Skinner
1934: John Fletcher
1942: Harry Riding
1955: F. C. Blackburn
1957: John Bonfield

General Presidents

1852: William Dronfield
1855:
1886: Owen Connellan
1888: Daniel Bird
1889:
1891: Richard Hackett
1892:
1893: Richard Hackett
1897:
1899: O. Waddington
1902: H. Matthewman
1908: John H. Boothman
1913: Jimmy French
1934: Hugh Inglis
1949: F. C. Blackburn
1955: John Bonfield
1957: Fred Simmons

References

  • Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions
  • Albert Edward Musson, The Typographical Association: Origins and History Up to 1949
Specific
  1. Musson, A. E. (1954). The Typographical Association. London: Oxford University Press. p. 351.
  2. Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.78
  3. "List of Labour Candidates and Election Results, May 30th, 1929". Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 24–44. 1929.
  4. "List of Endorsed Labour Candidates and Election Results, October 27, 1931". Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 11–27. 1931.
  5. "List of Endorsed Labour Candidates and Election Results, November 14, 1935". Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 8–23. 1935.
  6. Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248
  7. "List of Parliamentary Labour candidates and election results, February 23rd, 1950". Report of the Forty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 179–198. 1950.
  8. "List of Parliamentary Labour candidates and election results, 25th October, 1951". Report of the Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 184–203. 1951.
  9. Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-275
  10. Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.179-201


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