The Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation was a

trade union federation A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. In some regions, such ...

in northern England.

History

The federation was founded in 1906. By 1907, it brought together unions representing 126,700 members. Despite its name, it only included unions representing workers in the cotton industry; the wool industry and textile finishing were instead covered by the

National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade The National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade (NAUTT) was a trade union federation in the United Kingdom. The federation was founded in 1916. Despite its name, it included unions in only two areas of the textile trade: the wool industry ...

.Edwin Hopwood, ''A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association'', pp.75-76 Another similar organisation, the

United Textile Factory Workers' Association The United Textile Factory Workers' Association (UTFWA) was a trade union federation in Great Britain. It was active from 1889 until 1975. Objectives The federation was founded in 1889, to represent the various textile workers' unions in poli ...

, devoted itself to political work, and two of its members (the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives and the

Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners The Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners, also known as the Amalgamation, was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1870 and 1970. It represented male mule spinners in the cotton industry. His ...

) never joined the federation.Lynden Briscoe, ''The Textile and Clothing Industries of the United Kingdom'' By 1960, the federation's members were: * Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine) * Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Protection Society * Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen's Association *

Amalgamated Weavers' Association The Amalgamated Weavers' Association, often known as the Weavers' Amalgamation, was a trade union in the United Kingdom. Initially, it operated in competition with the North East Lancashire Amalgamated Weavers' Association in part of its are ...

General Union of Loom Overlookers The General Union of Loom Overlookers (GULO) was a trade union representing junior supervisors in textile manufacturing in the United Kingdom. While most members were based in Lancashire, it also had members in Yorkshire, East Anglia and Essex. ...

* Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society * Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association

General Secretaries

:1906: Tom Shaw :1919: Luke Bates :1943: Andrew Naesmith :1953:

Lewis Wright Lewis Tatham Wright, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne, CBE (born Stiles; 11 October 1903

:1968: Harry Kershaw :c.1970:

Arthur Howcroft Arthur Howcroft (died 25 January 1976) was a British trade union leader. Howcroft worked as a manager in the Bolton cotton mills, and he joined the Bolton and District Managers' and Overlookers' Association. In 1949, he was elected as general sec ...

:1971:

Fred Hague Fred Garfield Hague (29 September 1911''England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007'' – 13 November 1984) was a British trade unionist. Hague was born in Dixon Street, Crossbank, Waterhead, Oldham. He worked as a cotton weave ...

References

{{Lancashire cotton National trade union centres of the United Kingdom Trade unions established in 1906 1906 establishments in the United Kingdom Cotton industry trade unions