The National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers (NUPBPW) was a British trade union.

History

The union was founded in 1921 as the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers when the

National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers The National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers was a trade union representing bookbinders and related workers in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1911 when the Bookbinders' and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union merged with t ...

and the

National Union of Printing and Paper Workers The National Union of Printing and Paper Workers was a trade union representing workers in the printing industry in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1914 by the merger of the National Amalgamated Society of Printers' Warehousemen and ...

merged. The Platen Printing Machine Minders' Society and the

London Society of Machine Rulers London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, 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 dow ...

soon also joined. In 1926, its central London branch broke away, but rejoined in 1931. In 1928, the union dropped "machine ruling" from its name.Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, ''Historical Directory of Trade Unions'' By 1960, the union over 160,000 members. Following mergers with several small unions, in 1966 it joined with the National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants to form the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades.

Leadership

General Secretaries

:1921: Tom NewlandDavid Butler, ''Twentieth-Century British Political Facts, 1900-2000'', p.391 :1938: Bill Spackman :1947: Bill MorrisonPeter Bain and John Gennard, ''A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades'', p.214 :1961: Tom Smith

General Presidents

:1921: George Harraway :1938: E. C. Hooker :1950: Cecil Sharp :1954: John Mackenzie

References

External links

Catalogue of the NUPBPW 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 Printing Machine Branch/Platen Printing Machine Minders' Society archives
held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick 1921 establishments in the United Kingdom 1966 disestablishments in the United Kingdom Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom Bookbinders' trade unions Trade unions established in 1921 Trade unions disestablished in 1966 Trade unions based in London {{UK-trade-union-stub