__NOTOC__ The National Association of Operative Plasterers (NAOP) was a trade union representing plasterers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1860 and regarded itself as an amalgamation of three local societies. It immediately attracted a high membership for a union of the time, having 4,802 members in 1866, and although this fell to 2,400 by the end of the decade, it rose to 5,199 in 1876, representing nearly 20% of the total workforce.Arthur Marsh and Victoria Ryan, ''Historical Directory of British Trade Unions'', vol.3, pp.88-90 In 1895, both the Liverpool Operative Plasters' Trade, Accident and Burial Society, and the Metropolitan Trades Society of Operative Plasterers merged in, taking membership to 11,000, and a three-month strike in 1898 produced a national agreement on wages and working conditions. The union joined the National Federation of Building Trade Operatives in 1918, under the name of the National Association of Plasterers, Granolithic and Cement Workers. It left the federation in 1924, but rejoined in 1933. The Scottish National Operative Plasterers' Union finally amalgamated into the NAOP in 1967. In 1968, the union merged into the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Election results

The union sponsored its Bristol-area organiser as a Labour Party candidate in the

1929 UK general election The 1929 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 30 May 1929 and resulted in a hung parliament. It stands as the fourth of six instances under the secret ballot, and the first of three under universal suffrage, in which a party has ...

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1861: C. O. WilliamsTrade Union Ancestors,
Friendly Society of Operative Stonemasons
" :1885: John Knight :1885: Arthur Otley :1896: Michael Deller :1906:

Thomas Otley Thomas H. Otley (1861 – July 1922) was a British trade union leader. Otley worked as a plasterer. His cousin, Arthur Otley, served as general secretary of the National Association of Operative Plasterers (NAOP), which Thomas joined in 189 ...

:1922: Arthur Henry Telling :1950: Albert Dunne

Assistant General Secretaries

:1896: J. Lamb :1897:

:1906: Charles Brooks :1909: ''Post vacant'' :1920: Arthur Henry Telling :1923: Henry Cockerill :1942: John Lane :1943: ''Post vacant'' :1946: Albert Dunne :1950: Ronald V. Gough

References

* Reports from commissioners, House of Commons, 1869, p. 12

External links

Catalogue of the NAOP 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 ...

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