The Vellum (Account Book) Binders' Trade Society 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 ...

formed in 1823, and with a tiny membership representing a small fraction of bookbinders. It is perhaps best remembered in contemporary times for its president from 1892 to 1898, Frederick Rogers, who in 1900 acted as the first chairman of the Labour Representation Committee, the immediate forerunner of the British Labour Party. Rogers describes the union as small, old-fashioned and decidedly conservative. He assumed office after an unsuccessful industrial action from 1891 to 1892, in support of an eight-hour working day, resulted in the halving of its membership and severe depletion of its funds. In 1911, it amalgamated with the Bookbinders and Machine Rulers' Consolidated Union, the Society of Day-working Bookbinders of London, Westminster, etc and the

London Consolidated Society of Journeymen Bookbinders The London Consolidated Lodge of Journeymen Bookbinders was a trade union representing bookbinders based in London. In 1839, there were three lodges of bookbinders in London, and they undertook a thirty-week strike to limit the number of apprenti ...

to form the National Union of Bookbinders and Machine Rulers.

Secretaries

:1892: A. Goodhew :1909: Edward Friend

References

{{reflist, 30em 1823 establishments in the United Kingdom 1911 disestablishments Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom Trade unions established in the 1820s Trade unions disestablished in 1911 Bookbinders' trade unions Trade unions based in London