Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators
{{short description|Former trade union of the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox union
|name = Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators
|location_country= United Kingdom
|affiliation = TUC, ITUC, NFBTO, Labour
|members = 17,377 (1907){{cite book|title=Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907|date=1909|publisher=Board of Trade|location=London|pages=82–101}}
68,362 (1968){{cite journal |journal=Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress |date=1968 |page=36}}
|image =
|founded = 1855
|dissolved = 1970
|merged = Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers and Decorators
|headquarters = 55 South Side, Clapham, London
|key_people =
|footnotes =
}}
The Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators (ASPD) was a trade union in the United Kingdom which existed between 1886 and 1970.
History
The union had its origins in the Manchester Alliance of Operative House Painters, founded in 1855, which loosely grouped together local unions based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Macclesfield, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Stockport. The union had no executive committee and its general secretary, William MacDonald, did not attempt to control the actions or finances of the local societies, instead devoting his time to writing pamphlets espousing his views on trade unionism and the painting trade.{{cite book |last1=Postgate |first1=Raymond |title=The Builders' History |url=https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_a5k8 |date=1923 |publisher=National Federation of Building Trade Operatives |location=London |pages=[https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_a5k8/page/241 241]–243}}
The union claimed 3,980 members by 1867, but MacDonald's neglectful approach led him to be sidelined as honorary secretary, and replaced by Thomas Sharples, who began issuing regular reports, but made no other changes to the union's practices. The union underwent numerous name changes before emerging in 1886 as the more closely unified National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators."[http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Document.tcl&dsqItem=MAP.pdf Records of the National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212134135/http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Document.tcl&dsqItem=MAP.pdf |date=2013-12-12 }}", University of Warwick It merged with the Amalgamated Society of House Decorators and Painters and several smaller unions in 1904, to form the National Amalgamated Society of Operative House and Ship Painters and Decorators (NASOHASPAD). At some point in the 1930s or 1940s, it shortened its name to the National Society of Painters."[http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb152-mss.78/nasohspd Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212152010/http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb152-mss.78/nasohspd |date=2013-12-12 }}", Archives Hub
In 1961, the union absorbed the Scottish Painters' Society and the Southport and Birkdale Operative House Painters' Association to form the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators, but in 1970 it merged with the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, forming the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers and Decorators.
Election results
The union sponsored a Labour Party candidate in several Parliamentary elections.{{cite book |last1=Parker |first1=James |title=Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 |date=2017 |publisher=University of Exeter |location=Exeter |page=125 |url=https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/32856/ParkerJ.pdf}}
| class="wikitable sortable"
! Election !! Constituency !! Candidate !! Votes !! Percentage !! Position | |||||
| January 1910 general election | Holmfirth | {{sortname|William|Pickles|William Pickles (trade unionist)}} | 1,643 | 14.9 | 3 |
| 1929 general election | Kingston upon Hull North West | {{sortname|William|Pickles|William Pickles (trade unionist)}} | 10,700 | 30.1 | 2 |
| 1931 general election | Pudsey and Otley | {{sortname|William|Pickles|William Pickles (trade unionist)}} | 10,013 | 24.0 | 2 |
| 1935 general election | Huddersfield | {{sortname|William|Pickles|William Pickles (trade unionist)}} | 23,844 | 39.2 | 2 |
General Secretaries
References
External links
- [https://mrc.epexio.com/records/MAP Catalogue of the NASOHPD archives], held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
- [https://mrc.epexio.com/records/OHP Catalogue of the NASOHASPAD/ASPD archives], held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Category:Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Category:1856 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Painters' and decorators' trade unions
Category:Trade unions established in 1856