William Mosses (1858 – 17 May 1943) was a British

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. Mosses was elected as general secretary of the

United Patternmakers Association The United Patternmakers Association (UPA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. History The association was founded in 1872 to represent skilled patternmakers in England, following a strike by patternmakers along the River Tyne and River Wea ...

in 1884, and served in the post for 33 years. He supported Robert Knight's initiative to found the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, a loose body bringing together a variety of craft unions, and he served as its first general secretary, from 1890.

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, ''Report of the 1943 Annual Congress'', p.156 Mosses was also active in the

(TUC); he served on its Parliamentary Committee from 1907 to 1911, and again from 1913 until 1917. In 1905, he was the TUC delegate to the

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. Mosses resigned all his trade union positions in 1917 to take up a government post.Pattern Makers' League of North America, ''Pattern Makers' Journal'', Vols.28-29, p.18

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mosses, William 1858 births 1943 deaths General Secretaries of the United Patternmakers' Association Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress