{{Infobox union
, name = National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers
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, founded = 1911
, predecessor =
, successor =
, dissolved = 1921
, merged = National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers
, members = 7,000 (1912)
, publication =
, location_country= United Kingdom
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Trades Union Congress
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Fargate
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Sheffield
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The National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers was a
trade union
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representing bookbinders and related workers in the
United Kingdom
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.
The union was founded in 1911 when the
Bookbinders' and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union
The Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union (B&MRCU) was a trade union representing people involved in the manufacturing of books in the United Kingdom.
The union was founded on 19 October 1835 in Manchester as the Bookbinders' Consol ...
merged with the London Consolidated Society of Journeymen Bookbinders, the Vellum Account Book Binders' Trade Society and the Day Working Bookbinders of London.Arthur Marsh and John B. Smethurst, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'', vol.5, p.55 Many
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