Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators

Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators
Founded 1856
Date dissolved 1970
Merged into Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers and Decorators
Members 17,377 (1907)[1]
2,798 (1946)[2]
Affiliation TUC, ITUC, NFBTO, Labour
Country United Kingdom

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 1856, which loosely grouped together some local unions based around the city of Manchester. It underwent numerous name changes before emerging in 1886 as the more closely unified National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators.[3] 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.[4]

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.[4]

Election results

The union sponsored a Labour Party candidate in several Parliamentary elections.[5]

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
Jan 1910 general electionHolmfirthWilliam Pickles1,64314.93
1929 general electionKingston upon Hull North WestWilliam Pickles10,70030.12
1931 general electionPudsey and OtleyWilliam Pickles10,01324.02
1935 general electionHuddersfieldWilliam Pickles23,84439.22

General Secretaries

1856?: William Macdonald
1866: Thomas Sharples
1890: G. M. Sunley
1910: Joseph Parsonage
1918: J. A. Gibson
1947: Sidney Horsfield
1960s: Albert Austin

References

  1. ↑ Report on Trade Unions in 1905-1907. London: Board of Trade. 1909. p. 82-101.
  2. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.77
  3. ↑ "Records of the National Amalgamated Society of Operative House Painters and Decorators", University of Warwick
  4. 1 2 "Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators", Archives Hub
  5. ↑ Parker, James (2017). Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 (PDF). Exeter: University of Exeter. p. 125.
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