Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society
1849-1975
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Minutes, Financial papers, Membership records, Correspondence, Printed papers; Papers relating to John Bailey & Co. (John Bailey was treasurer of the society), Miscellaneous papers.
Place:/Lancashire/England
Title:
Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society
Date of work:
1849-1975
Reference number:
GB127.M308
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
The Manchester and Salford Trunk and Packing Case Makers' Friendly, Relief, and Burial Society was established 9 June 1825, to provide unemployment pay, burial benefit and emigration grants. In 1854 sick benefit was added and in 1855 superannuation. In the eighteenfifties the Society formed its own Company, John Bailey & Co., named after its first foreman, in order to run a workshop at which unemployed members could work.
In 1892 it joined the Manchester and Salford Trades Council and in 1896, following a dispute with the employers, formed the United Kingdom Federation of Wood Packing Case Makers and joined the Kindred Trades Federation.
In 1903 it joined the Labour Party, previously having supported the Liberals.
In 1905 a No.2 Society was formed from workers in outside shops, but the two Societies amalgamated in 1910. In 1917 Boxmakers joined the Society, as a separate section, bringing women into the Society for the first time.
Originally members were employed in making packing cases for the export of cotton goods but the decline in the textile industry particularly after World War II led to the majority of the work being done for the engineering industry.
The 1878 rule book contains the first mention of Bolton members and the Society became known as the Manchester, Salford, Bolton and District Packing Case Makers' Society. In 1945, because of the increase in members from elsewhere, it changed its name to the Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers' Society.
For further details of its history see A Short History of the Lancashire Packing Case Makers, by Alan Fowler. within this archive
Source:
Deposited on permanent loan by Mr. Alan Smith, Secretary, in July 1978
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General notes:
Arrangement:Arranged by function
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7193219
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