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The London Society of Compositors was a British
trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...
, representing print workers in
London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
.


History

The union was founded as the London Union of Compositors in 1834 by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the London General Trade Society of Compositors. The following year, it was joined by the News Society of Compositors. In 1845, the union was officially dissolved, its members designating it the South Eastern District of the
National Typographical Association The National Typographical Association was an early British trade union, operating on a national basis. The union was founded in 1830 as the Northern Typographical Union, a federation of small, local societies in England and the Isle of Man, i ...
. The national organisation collapsed, and the London group re-established itself as the "London Society of Compositors". The union had a membership of over 10,000 by 1910, and attempted to expand outside London, but the
Trades Union Congress The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national tra ...
instituted arbitration which limited it to a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the
Typographical Association The Typographical Association (TA) was a trade union representing typographers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. History The National Typographical Association collapsed in 1848, and delegates from across Yorkshire and Lancashire met at Angel ...
having rights to organise in the remainder of England. In 1955, the Society merged with the
Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society {{short description, Former trade union of the United Kingdom The Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society (PMMTS) was a trade union representing supervisors of machinery in the printing trade. The union was founded in 1839 as the London Printing ...
and was renamed the London Typographical Society. In 1964, it merged with the Typographical Association to form the
National Graphical Association The National Graphical Association (NGA) was a trade union representing typographers and related workers in the United Kingdom. History The union was formed in 1964 by the merger of two long-term rival unions, the Typographical Association and ...
.


Election results

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Deptford Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, within the London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dock ...
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General Secretaries

*1848: Edward Edwards *1850: John Boyett *1854: William Cox *1857: William Beckett *1863: Henry Self *1881: C. J. Drummond *1892:
C. W. Bowerman Charles William Bowerman (22 January 1851 – 11 June 1947), often known as C. W. Bowerman, was a prominent British trade unionist and politician. Life Born in Honiton, Bowerman moved to Clerkenwell in London at an early age. On leaving educ ...
*1906:
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*1938: Alfred M. Wall *1945: Robert Willis *1955: Robert Willis and
Percy Astins Percy Astins (22 February 1888 – 1 March 1963) was a British trade unionist and politician. Astins became active in the London United Society of Plate Printers, and served as its final general secretary. In 1919, he took the union into a merge ...
*1956: Robert Willis


References

*Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions''


External links


Catalogue of the LSC archives
held at the
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick The Modern Records Centre (MRC) is the specialist archive service of the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, located adjacent to the Central Campus Library. It was established in October 1973 and holds the world's largest archive collecti ...

Catalogue of the PMMTS archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Catalogue of the LTS archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Organizations established in 1834 1964 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom Typesetters 1834 establishments in the United Kingdom Printing trade unions Trade unions established in the 1830s Trade unions disestablished in 1964 Trade unions based in London