Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners' and General Workers' Union
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{{Infobox union
| name = Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners and General Workers' Union
| location_country= Northern Ireland
| affiliation = Irish Trades Union Congress
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| founded = 1885
| dissolved = 1951
| merged = Transport and General Workers Union
| headquarters = 79 North Street, Lurgan{{cite journal |year=1919 |journal=The Labour Year Book |page=367 |publisher=General Council of the Trade Union Congress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qe4sAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=9 April 2013|title=The Labour Year Book }}
| key_people = R. Levin, Secretary
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The Lurgan Hemmers' Veiners' and General Workers' Union, also known as the Lurgan Hemmers' and Veiners' Trade Union and the Lurgan Hemmers' and Veiners' and General Women Workers' Trade Union, was a trade union in Northern Ireland. It was formed in 1885 but 'faded away' some time before 1889. It was re-established in 1901–2.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Moriarty |first=Theresa |editor-first1=Adrian |editor-last1=Gregory |editor-first2=Senia |editor-last2=Pašeta |encyclopedia=Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All?' |title=Work, warfare and wages: Industrial controls and Irish trade unionism in the First World War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0w_EpY_PnQC |accessdate=10 April 2013 |year=2002 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=0-7190-5924-0 |page=92}} In 1911 the union had 2,500 members.{{cite journal |year=2002 |journal=Historical Studies in Industrial Relations |issue=13–14 |page=67 |publisher=Keele University Centre for Industrial Relations |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEhaAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=10 April 2013|title=Historical Studies in Industrial Relations }} It primarily represented female workers and was briefly affiliated to the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1911.{{cite encyclopedia |last=Moriarty |first=Theresa |editor-first1=Adrian |editor-last1=Gregory |editor-first2=Senia |editor-last2=Pašeta |encyclopedia=Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All?' |title=Work, warfare and wages: Industrial controls and Irish trade unionism in the First World War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t0w_EpY_PnQC |accessdate=10 April 2013 |year=2002 |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |isbn=0-7190-5924-0 |page=83}} It merged with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1951.
General Secretaries
:1900s: Minnie Rodgers
:c.1919: Robert Levin
See also
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Category:Defunct trade unions of Ireland
Category:Trade unions in Northern Ireland
Category:Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations