The Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland was a

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representing

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. While never a large union, it brought together all the unionised stonemasons in the country. The union was founded in 1919, when the

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merged with the

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, the Associated Paviors' Federal Union, and the Scottish Amalgamated Society of Mosaic and Encaustic Tile Fixers, Marble Workers and Fireplace Builders. Membership of the union was 5,000 in 1924, and it was still 5,000 in 1942. However, it had built up a healthy reserve fund of £18,000. That year, it decided to merge into the

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, which already represented stonemasons in England and Wales.

General Secretaries

:1919: Hugh McPherson{{cite journal , title=Obituary: Hugh McPherson , journal=Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party , date=1937 , page=69 :1937: David Black

References

Trade unions established in 1919 Trade unions disestablished in 1942 Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom 1919 establishments in the United Kingdom Stonemasons' trade unions Defunct trade unions of Scotland