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United Textile Factory Workers' Association

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United Textile Factory Workers' Association
Founded1889
Dissolved1975
Location
Members
100,522 (1946)[1]
AffiliationsLabour Party

The United Textile Factory Workers' Association (UTFWA) was a trade union federation in Great Britain. It was active from 1889 until 1975.

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Bangladesh Clothing Apparel Trade SHOCKING! on April 14th thousand to n the Institute for Global labour and human rights report a catalog abuses at the International British comments fact Jordan unknown Supplier Walmart Nygaard JCPenney and Dillard's workers were reportedly trafficked from Sri Lanka Bangladesh and India strip to their passports and routinely forced to work over 110 hours a week their house in appalling conditions and moreover cheated on her and her after entitled to pay a complete surprise according to a statement by night God the instant has been predictably portrayed as a one-off an anomaly that slipped through the net it measures implemented to defend the rights to the workers supplying his clothing joints appalled by these reports which are paramount slavery I felt compelled to investigate further during my travels across Asia I hope to speak to workers and officials to hear their side of the story and to gain entry into a factory to film the conditions for everyone to see the conditions are the garment industry in Bangladesh are in general makes the worst in the world despite a hike in the minimum wage in 2010 workers wages started 3,000 taka a month just thirty six dollars this wage pools significantly shorter than acceptable living wage that is enough to provide basic necessities such as food clean water accommodation health and education trade unionists calculate a living wage to be at least 5,000 taka yet even as total would hardly break these workers who for the most live in tiny dilapidated structures in Dhaka sprawling slums lovecraft garments is a factory that has recently supplied: Capen I got we arrange to meet with several lovecraft workers at their home they gave us an insight into the conditions in which they are forced to live and reveal that the factories breaking several labels which garment factory today I lovecraft comments okay how many people live in this room done 10 and how many how many hours do they work in at normal week to North or so so when they do every time they worked out 120 hours 12 to 13 hours ago ans do they choose to do it I'm not little bitch in the field he said rule is they have order in it too length appear if they say best workers and the need to work overtime bangladeshi labor laws state to the working day should be no longer than eight hours with an optional two hours unpaid overtime how much they get paid him money left foot and 4,000 on this way to fifty dollars the workers cannot provide for themselves and therefore larger their uncle her family have 10 can afford one small room in which to cook sleep and live taking turns in the single bed a straight up a dozen such families share one call it in water supply the workers were confused when we asked about holiday entitlements apparently they're offered compensation for not taking any time off work although this extra income is appreciated by the impoverished workers the practice is illegal leads to exhaustion the factory office half the legal requirement maternity leave just eight weeks the workers are therefore forced to work grueling hours latter stages of pregnancy endangering the health for both mother and child the factory also provides no child care despite the fact that is a legal requirement and Anna love comments is there childcare not much different than Latin look no has no choke as child care or schooling represent another crippling expense many workers are forced on a to send their children to stay with family in rural areas or let them grow up on the streets the times by workers in the industry to improve their working conditions are met with suppression factory workers routinely hire games to intimidate workers in breakup unions deny workers freedom of association we met with a spokesperson from a national garment workers Federation who da village that other workers she was threatened daily by group of men with rape and violence if she did not drop the case you had raised against the factory the backfield threatened the old the workers the higher goals long time I area Andy tell them to beat them up the workers up anything that is gonna need them to keep their mouth shut about anything else the current think they're worth me alone he was beaten up very severe and thrown into the great into the sewer and then the leaders they have help the first when she won a longer for sale in the back she had expect by the one's own the backfield and whenever she's to go to work she's to find the mall staying there they yesterday waiting for her and they say that they're gonna pick up probably any day she doesn't withdraw the case issued by the gate multinational buyers are responsible for these atrocious standards well each year all these business they I no with and we'll see domain goalie phone is this it is actually with the global this month national their smoking and their this article the local thank you 10 that did she know that away to a the ways of the weather he happily ensure that the workers their walking the beat condition bubble baths just openly this up loss the local business people that you have book that he used to address factory owners consequently make few improvements in order to maintain profitability various gestures amazing potential working standards but often to little effect for example though legislation ninety manza factories provide child care the low standards for this service even where it is enforced means that the majority in others prefer for their children to play in the slums we at a local man where these children's mothers were he said they're working looking gold wasn't working for their work in the governor factors in the Gulf to see for ourselves the conditions within the workplace we visited Southern designers a supposedly reputable factory that supplies Nygaard and employs over a thousand women talking at length with one other managers I was shocked by the way he viewed workers as a commodity simply in assets to be used for their own means everything are not people are very hard working Yahoo Bell anything there too right there are people oh yeah move them but I'm for you that already that that for you know with me bpm they don't like that your your people yeah then that ever red well so company are expected to provide child care I witness just one play area but one supervisor but only a handful children the world for life PNG wmf campaign only through a fair price offered by multinational buyers can workers achieve a fair wage in the right circle with it so routes ASAP so for and I got so these or thirty-seven dollars how much do you get cool forrest gump you my well yeah then energy like travel many the issues in bangladesh is shared by the Cambodian garment industry the minimum wage is higher sixty one dollars per month however the cost of living is also higher and the total is not considered to be adequate in providing basic needs workers a actual minimum wage the mall in the system my son its must yes too much at all and a mover I'll Lee we you know ish goes up to because low-wage with past the where so that a rooms holidays and his stay evil by Hills and some time you know no even though you know fair because the or and utilities this use that vested even in which alone and in the same leaves as quiet biennial Adam so will lolos them and yes a slight and it doesn't and bowling us you know house is located in Sun factors walking around the slum areas we were able to interview workers who admitted that they could not consider starting a family as I can only just support themselves %uh I want to help the family cannot in nineteen for but a everyman of and the money yes enough love this lady told us that she could not afford to accommodate an educator children in the capital where she works and they therefore have many miles from here with their relations way calling here way chanterelle they you at the Boleyn lyle locations all many others company need advice is so says she doesn't like her children any yeah making us capacity here yeah River Ridge garments is a notorious company encourages applies both wal-mart in I god in 2007 the dismissal at Union finders led to a mass strike demanding just working conditions and freedom of association an agreement was eventually reached nevertheless according to a study by the Community Legal Education Center the company are once again violating various labels on human rights up we tried to gain entry to the factory but after a lengthy time a security where only permitted to walk around the factory buildings later though we talk to workers who reported that around 10 percent of the workforce achievement however this is hard to prove is a factory reported forties documents as proof have a chip workers are forced to work between 10 and 12 hours a day seven days a week the workers are rarely allowed holidays similarly although workers are entitled to 18 days annual leave they're only grounded this leave in special circumstances although workers are entitled to paid sick leave to Maximo two days the factory insists that they provide a sick note from a designated hospital as workers cannot afford the fees necessary to cure this document they must either go unpaid will return to work before they've recovered factory is not offer any maternity leave Cambodian law demands a fact sheet about ninety days maternity leave fifty percent pay workers instead are expected to take a couple other unpaid days to recuperate before beginning work again under a new probation or a contract another major problem in cambodia is the use of short term contracts company now that use I'll Sutter I tour of all this trial of her for a while helpful up I'll again the million the Jew this author and it shouldn't actually meant for says track easy were the mood yes all the time want the air implement will not be this ploy is also used to rid the factory members are the union's and pregnant workers and you shouldn't either got the whole day %um trim free your entry the employees on p well you so personally what you know were sometime were dishonesty by the slow well be she been see yes then be Lee Roy business she we going finish lon Cohen garments produced clothing for now I gotta Reebok amongst others on a portable August 2011 500 workers factory went on strike in protest to the company's ill treatment of his employees the factory employs underage girls the claims substantiated by the admission of a 15-year-old worker we met tax on the factory it does is 15 years old and she works in the fight okay per month thirty dollars we see her identity card in the camera Lucille your help they legally take these girls on in exchange for cheaper labor cost the Grateful teenagers forgo their transport allowance work long hours overtime and accept a pitiful wage the factory reportedly forces workers to do over time typically demanding between 10 and 12 hours a day six days a week no money in the world Monday K lol I the 01 yeah while more for more she was situation well as yeah factory does not provide any paid sick leave again on its sick workers continue to come to work is obviously hinders a recovery at the effective worker and encourages spread the disease the factory reportedly discriminates against workers recently dismissed two women becoming pregnant to avoid paying for their maternity leave he's women I have no source of income with which to support themselves through pregnancy and provide for their children the hallway all other Britain and because the law issue: well in the company 41 yet you hell right to what an idiot and you can't get fifty percent are to sorry solar company didn't know what past one year ago didn't want do this well so the company they have good this grave injustice represents more than a breach in label it's a gross violation of human rights approach the mother and the unborn children as in Bangladesh responsibility for these violations must lie partially with a multinational buyers with their insistence poor practices such as short duration contracts could be prevented more conscientious pricing they could fun better working conditions and a higher minimum wage yes his flock to you I you UK you must be held so the UK to liza from the his feel close not every company the I'll what does the other company huh just her and they have a right to a spot to had a at all the slot Allison wrong but my I and how Mikey top ya me got is out how company strategist subcontractor I have that was the whole another juice of copper palm for other this goodness and again yet also to a while good but in general leedom here is another vehicle lead them do well did it was clear to me by the end my trip to the multinational buyers are the root cause

Objectives

The federation was founded in 1889, to represent the various textile workers' unions in political matters.[2] A successor to the Northern Counties Factory Acts Reform Association, it had a broader outlook, not just campaigning on the implementation and extension of the Factory Acts.[3]

The UTFWA initially represented around 125,000 workers,[4] three-quarters within twenty miles of Bolton in Lancashire.[5] By the early twentieth century, its members were organised in the Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing Room Operatives, Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners, Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers, Amalgamated Weavers' Association, General Union of Loom Overlookers and Operative Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers Association.[6] Later members included the Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen, the General Warp Dressers' Association of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and the Ball Warpers' Association.[1]

The new federation had a General Council with about two hundred members of local unions, and a Legislative Council of full-time leaders. However, its member unions did not always engage with its structures, and the General Council did not meet between 1896 and 1899.[7]

Early years

In its early years, the association attempted to introduce a bill reducing working hours, but dropped the proposal after it was only narrowly passed in a ballot of members. It also hoped to sponsor parliamentary candidates for both the Conservative Party and Liberal Party, but decided not to pursue this following a lack of interest from the Conservatives and opposition from James Mawdsley. However, it did achieve some success in campaigning against Indian tariffs on cotton imports, as the rates were reduced to below those on other materials.[8]

In 1902, breaking with its previous policy, the UTFWA supported David Shackleton's candidature for the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) in Clitheroe.[9] He was elected and, the following year, the Association affiliated to the LRC.[2] The Cardroom Workers quit the association a few years later after none of its members were adopted as parliamentary candidates, but rejoined in 1916.[10]

In 1920, some of its member unions moved for the association to extend its remit to industrial matters, but this was not adopted.[11]

Demise

The federation was dissolved on 1 December 1975,[12] following the decline of the industry and the merger of its two largest affiliates into the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union.[13]

Election results

The federation sponsored a large number of Labour Party candidates, many of whom won election.

Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position Union
1906 general election Bolton Alfred Henry Gill 10,416 37.1 2[14][15] Spinners[16]
Clitheroe David James Shackleton 12,035 75.9 1[14][15] Weavers[16]
1910 Jan general election Bolton Alfred Gill 11,864 30.5 2 Spinners[16]
Clitheroe David Shackleton 13,873 67.3 1 Weavers[16]
1910 Dec general election Bolton Alfred Gill 7,729 64.0 2 Spinners[16]
Clitheroe Albert Smith 12,107 67.7 1 Weavers[16]
Preston William Henry Carr 7,853 23.0 4 Cardroom[16]
1911 by-election Oldham William Cornforth Robinson 7,448 24.6 3 Beamers[16]
1918 general election Clitheroe Alfred Davies 9,578 44.7 1 Spinners[16]
Fylde William John Tout 7,400 35.1 2 Weavers
Nelson and Colne Albert Smith 14,075 62.0 1 Weavers[16]
Oldham William Cornforth Robinson 15,178 19.6 3 Beamers[16]
Ormskirk James Bell 6,545 37.2 1 Weavers
Preston Tom Shaw 19,213 25.8 1 Weavers
Rossendale Gilbert Wright Jones 7,984 35.1 2 Bleachers
Sowerby John William Ogden 7,306 32.7 2 Weavers
1920 by-election Ashton-under-Lyne William Cornforth Robinson 8,127 39.6 2 Beamers[16]
1922 general election Birmingham Duddeston Michael Brothers 8,331 38.9 2[17] Cardroom
Clitheroe Alfred Davies 12,911 45.3 2[17] Spinners[16]
Elland William C. Robinson 10,590 36.8 1[17] Beamers[16]
Middleton and Prestwich Matthew Burrow Farr 10,505 41.5 2[17] Cardroom
Oldham William John Tout 24,434 27.7 2[17] Weavers
Ormskirk James Bell 8,374 41.3 2[18] Weavers
Preston Tom Shaw 26,259 27.9 1[17] Weavers
Rossendale Gilbert Wright Jones 11,029 36.5 2[17] Bleachers
Royton John B. Battle 5,776 19.6 2[17] Spinners[16]
Sowerby John William Ogden 7,496 25.5 3[17] Weavers
1923 general election Bolton Albert Law 25,133 18.6 1[19] Spinners[16]
Chorley Zeph Hutchinson 12,179 45.3 2[19] Weavers
Clitheroe Alfred Davies 11,469 37.9 2[19] Spinners[16]
Elland William C. Robinson 12,031 49.1 2[19] Beamers[16]
Middleton and Prestwich Matthew Burrow Farr 7,849 28.7 3[19] Cardroom
Oldham William John Tout 20,939 23.4 1[19] Weavers
Preston Tom Shaw 25,816 34.4 1[19] Weavers
1924 general election Bolton Albert Law 30,632 20.9 3[20] Spinners[16]
Chorley Zeph Hutchinson 13,074 42.3 2[20] Weavers
Elland William C. Robinson 11,690 39.5 1[20] Beamers[16]
Middleton and Prestwich Matthew Burrow Farr 8,442 27.0 2[20] Cardroom
Oldham William Tout 23,623 19.7 3[20] Weavers
Preston Tom Shaw 27,009 26.3 1[20] Weavers
Rossendale James Bell 9,951 32.4 2[20] Weavers
1925 by-election Oldham William John Tout 21,702 45.2 2[21] Weavers
1929 general election Bolton Albert Law 43,520 24.0 1[22] Spinners[16]
Bolton Michael Brothers 37,888 20.9 2[22] Cardroom
Bury James Bell 13,175 37.4 2[22] Weavers
Middleton and Prestwich Matthew Burrow Farr 14,368 34.6 2[22] Cardroom
Preston Tom Shaw 37,705 29.5 1[22] Weavers
Sowerby William John Tout 14,223 37.2 1[22] Weavers
1931 general election Bolton Michael Brothers 32,049 16.4 4[23] Cardroom[24]
Bolton Albert Law 33,736 17.3 3[23] Spinners[16]
Bury James Bell 10,532 29.7 2[23] Weavers[24]
Heywood and Radcliffe James Stott 12,915 28.5 2[23] Beamers[24]
Middleton and Prestwich Thomas McCall 10,796 25.4 2[23] Warehousemen[24]
Preston Tom Shaw 25,710 18.0 3[23] Weavers
Royton George Illingworth 5,913 14.4 3[23] Spinners[16]
Sowerby William John Tout 11,857 31.7 2[23] Weavers[24]
1935 general election Blackburn James Bell 34,571 23.9 3[25] Weavers[26]
Bolton Albert Law 39,890 21.4 3[25] Spinners[16]
Bolton John Lynch 39,871 21.4 4[25] Warehousemen[26]
Middleton and Prestwich Joseph Nuttall 17,398 38.9 2[25] Weavers[26]
Oldham Matthew Burrow Farr 29,647 4[25] Cardroom[26]
Sowerby William John Tout 16,035 46.2 2[25] Weavers[26]
1938 by-election Farnworth George Tomlinson 24,298 59.1 1[27] Weavers
1945 general election Farnworth George Tomlinson 28,462 66.1 1[28] Weavers
Oldham Frank Fairhurst 31,704 23.9 1[28] Overlookers
Preston John William Sunderland 32,889 24.1 2[28] Weavers
1950 general election Farnworth George Tomlinson 25,375 56.6 1[29] Weavers
Manchester Withington Lewis Wright 14,206 32.6 2[29] Weavers
Oldham East Frank Fairhurst 21,510 45.0 1[29] Overlookers
1951 general election Bury and Radcliffe Lewis Wright 28,058 48.4 2[30] Weavers
Clitheroe Harold Bradley 18,582 44.7 2[30] Weavers
Farnworth George Tomlinson 26,297 59.2 1[30] Weavers
1952 by-election Farnworth Ernest Thornton 21,834 59.9 1 Weavers
1955 general election Clitheroe William Rutter 16,671 43.5 2[31] Overlookers
Farnworth Ernest Thornton 24,829 57.7 1[31] Weavers
1959 general election Clitheroe William Rutter 16,103 41.9 2[32] Overlookers
Farnworth Ernest Thornton 27,393 58.6 1[32] Weavers
1964 general election Farnworth Ernest Thornton 28,492 62.1 1[33] Weavers
1966 general election Farnworth Ernest Thornton 30,015 66.2 1[34] Weavers
1970 general election North Fylde Raymond Hill 15,235 31.2 2[35] Weavers

Leadership

Secretaries

1889: Thomas Birtwistle
c.1892: James Mawdsley
1902: Joseph Cross
1925: James Bell
1931: Cephas Speak
1943: Ernest Thornton
1953: Harold Bradley
1958: James Milhench
1968: Joseph Richardson

Presidents

1889: David Holmes
1890s: William Mullin
1913: William C. Robinson
1919: Walter Gee
1924: William Thomasson
1935: Archie Robertson
1953: William Roberts
1958: Harold Chorlton
1964: Jim Browning

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.77
  2. ^ a b D. A. Farnie, Region and Strategy in Britain and Japan, p.117
  3. ^ Andrew Bullen, The Lancashire Weavers Union, p.22
  4. ^ Teun Hoefnagel, Tussen traditie en emancipatie, p.328 (in Dutch)
  5. ^ P. F. Clarke, Lancashire and the New Liberalism, p.84
  6. ^ P. F. Clarke, Lancashire and the New Liberalism, p.93
  7. ^ David Howell, British Workers and the Independent Labour Party, 1888-1906, pp.58-59
  8. ^ P. F. Clarke, Lancashire and the New Liberalism, pp.84-88
  9. ^ P. F. Clarke, Lancashire and the New Liberalism, pp.91-92
  10. ^ Joseph L. White, The Limits of Trade Union Militancy: The Lancashire Textile Workers, 1910-1914, pp.151-152
  11. ^ H. A. Clegg et al, A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889: 1911-1933, p.305
  12. ^ Report of Annual Trades Union Congress, vol.108, p.379
  13. ^ "Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union", Archives Hub
  14. ^ a b Joel Dayton Moore, The Taff Vale Decision in British Labor History, pp.115-116
  15. ^ a b Frank Bealey and Henry Pelling, Labour and Politics, 1900-1906, pp.290-292
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Fowler, Alan; Wyke (1987). The Barefoot Aristocrats: A History of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Littleborough: George Kelsall. ISBN 0-946571-10-4.
  17. ^ a b c d e f g h i Labour Party, Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-272. Note that this list is of the sanctioned candidates as of June 1922, and there were some changes between this date and the general election.
  18. ^ "Textile workers' campaign". Manchester Guardian. 19 November 1923.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g "Textile Workers' Group". Manchester Guardian. 20 November 1923.
  20. ^ a b c d e f g "Seven textile workers' candidates". Manchester Guardian. 15 October 1924.
  21. ^ Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1925), pp.25–27
  22. ^ a b c d e f "Cotton operatives' candidates". Manchester Guardian. 7 March 1929.
  23. ^ a b c d e f g h Annual Report of the Labour Party: 11–27. 1931. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  24. ^ a b c d e "Factory Workers & A Manifesto". Manchester Guardian. 15 October 1931.
  25. ^ a b c d e f "List of Endorsed Labour Candidates and Election Results, November 14, 1935". Annual Report of the Labour Party: 8–23. 1935.
  26. ^ a b c d e "Textile Workers: Effort to Secure More Seats in Parliament". Manchester Guardian. 3 May 1935.
  27. ^ "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 57–63. 1939.
  28. ^ a b c Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248
  29. ^ a b c "List of Parliamentary Labour candidates and election results, February 23rd, 1950". Report of the Forty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 179–198. 1950.
  30. ^ a b c Labour Party, Report of the Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.184-203
  31. ^ a b Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-275
  32. ^ a b Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.179-201
  33. ^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Third Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.158-180
  34. ^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.308-330
  35. ^ Labour Party, Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.289-312

Further reading

  • Griffiths, Trevor. The Lancashire Working Classes: C. 1880-1930 (Oxford University Press on Demand, 2001).
  • Procter, Stephen, and J. S. Toms. "Industrial Relations and Technical Change: Profits, Wages and Costs in the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1880-1914." Journal of Industrial History 3#1 (2000): 54-72. online
  • Singleton, J. Lancashire on the scrapheap: The cotton industry, 1945–70 (Oxford UP, 1991).
  • Tippett, L.H.C. A portrait of the Lancashire cotton industry (Oxford UP, 1969).
  • White, Joseph L. "Lancashire Cotton Textiles," in Chris Wrigley, A History of British industrial relations, 1875-1914 (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1982) pp 209–229.
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