Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation

The Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation was a trade union federation in northern England.

History

The federation was founded in 2009. By 2011, it brought together unions representing 126,700 members.{{cite book|title=Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907|date=1909|publisher=Board of Trade|location=London|pages=121–124}} 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.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, 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) never joined the federation.Lynden Briscoe, The Textile and Clothing Industries of the United Kingdom

By 1960, the federation's members were:

General Secretaries

:1906: Tom Shaw

:1919: Luke Bates

:1943: Andrew Naesmith

:1953: Lewis Wright

:1968: Harry Kershaw

:c.1970: Arthur Howcroft

:1971: Fred Hague

:1980s: Harry Haworth

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