London Society of Compositors

London Society of Compositors
Founded 1834
Predecessor London Trade Society of Compositors
London General Trade Society of Compositors
Date dissolved 1964
Merged into National Graphical Association
Members 12,387 (1907)[1]
Affiliation TUC
Office location 7-9 St Bride Street, London
Country England

The London Society of Compositors was a British trade union, representing print workers in London.

The union was founded as the London Union of Compositors in 1834 by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the London General Trade Society of Compositors. The following year, it was joined by the News Society of Compositors. In 1845, the union was officially dissolved, its members designating it the South Eastern District of the National Typographical Association. The national organisation collapsed, and the London group re-established itself as the "London Society of Compositors".

The union had a membership of over 10,000 by 1910, and attempted to expand outside London, but the Trades Union Congress instituted arbitration which limited it to a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the Typographical Association having rights to organise in the remainder of England.

In 1955, the Society merged with the Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society and was renamed the London Typographical Society. In 1964, it merged with the Typographical Association to form the National Graphical Association.

General Secretaries

References

  1. ↑ Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 82-101.
  • Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions
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