The General Union of Loom Overlookers (GULO) was a trade union representing junior supervisors in textile manufacturing in the United Kingdom. While most...
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The Scottish Union of Power Loom Overlookers was a trade union representing supervisors in textile mills in Scotland. The union was founded at some point...
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Officers 2002: International Union of Sex Workers 2007: General Union of Loom Overlookers 2008: Ambulance Service Union 2010: Community and District Nursing...
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The Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers (YAPLO) was a trade union representing junior supervisors in weaving in the United Kingdom. The association...
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Edward Duxbury (category General secretaries of British trade unions)
up to become a loom overlooker. Duxbury joined the General Union of Loom Overlookers (GULO), and in 1913 he was elected as its general secretary, initially...
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Arthur Howcroft (category Presidents of the General Federation of Trade Unions (UK))
1949, he was elected as general secretary of the small union. The union was affiliated to the General Union of Loom Overlookers (GULO), and in 1963, he...
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John Kay (flying shuttle) (redirect from John Kay of Bury)
responsible for educating him until she remarried. He apprenticed with a hand-loom reed maker, but is said to have returned home within a month claiming to...
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Ratcliffe of Stockport patented a Dandy loom with a cast-iron frame. It was this type of Dandy loom that was used in the small dandy loom shops. In the...
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Institute of Journalists Trade Union, National Association of Fire Officers, National Association of Power Loom Overlookers, Nationally Integrated Caring...
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Northern Counties Textile Trades Federation (category National trade union centres of the United Kingdom)
Warehousemen's Association Amalgamated Weavers' Association General Union of Loom Overlookers Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers' Friendly Society Lancashire...
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and General Woodworkers' Society Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers Electrical and Plumbing Industries Union National Association of Licensed...
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established in the middle of the 19th century by James Burton in Tyldesley, Manchester, England following the dissolution of the partnership of Burton, Chippendale...
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Mule spinners' cancer (category History of the textile industry)
favoured the view that this form of cancer was caused by the prolonged action of mineral oils on the skin of the scrotum, and of these oils, shale oil was deemed...
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United Textile Factory Workers' Association (category National trade union centres of the United Kingdom)
Twisters and Drawers, Amalgamated Weavers' Association, General Union of Loom Overlookers and Operative Bleachers, Dyers and Finishers Association....
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Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies)
Dean of Worcester 1845–1874 General Jonathan Peel (1799–1879), soldier, politician and owner of racehorses (including 'Orlando', the winner of the 'Running...
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Platt Brothers (category Defunct manufacturing companies of England)
Toyota company of Japan was made in 1929 when the company paid £100,000 for the patent rights for an innovative automatic weaving loom designed by Sakichi...
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Frank Dickinson (category Presidents of the General Federation of Trade Unions (UK))
District Power Loom Overlookers' Society. During World War I, he also served on the Wool Control Board. In 1916, he was a founder member of the National...
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Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
Cotton Spinning Industry Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 21) was an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom which introduced a compulsory levy on cotton...
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Samuel Oldknow (category High Sheriffs of Derbyshire)
weavers were encouraged to move their looms into the loom house before the final stage came when Oldknow provided the looms and employed the weavers on a wage...
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Society Furniture, Timber and Allied Trades Union General Union of Associations of Loom Overlookers Hinckley Dyers' and Auxiliary Association Huddersfield...
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John Kay (spinning frame) (redirect from John Kay of Warrington)
is equally dependent on skills of invention and the management of invention. Aikin, J.; Johnston, W. (1799). General Biography. Vol. 1. Robinson. p. 391...
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Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 (category History of the textile industry in the United Kingdom)
Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 54) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It established the Cotton Board and was...
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education. An autodidact, he taught himself to read and write and the elements of arithmetic and technical drawing. In 1786, he moved to Manchester where he...
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William Houldsworth (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Manchester)
Houldsworth, of Reddish, in the Parish of Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and of Coodham in the Parish of Symington in the County of Ayr. The...
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Cotton Industry Act 1959 (category History of Lancashire)
including the Cotton Industry (Reorganisation) Act 1936 and 1939. Implementation of the Act ran into considerable trouble as demand for cotton collapsed. Cotton...
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John Fielden (category Politics of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham)
particular the plight of hand-loom weavers), but found little support in Parliament on these issues. Despairing that the concerns of the poor would never...
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Philip Sidney Stott (category Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom)
interrupted by the First World War. The weaving shed completed in 1923 had 1,516 looms. Kreymborg & Schem Vom Dyckhoff und Stoevecken Letter to The Times signed...
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Weavers' Triangle (category Lists of coordinates)
larger spinning mills of the Oldham Limited of the late 19th century ware built in towns further south. The Burnley loom was a narrow loom that produced grey...
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of the General Union of Lancashire and Yorkshire Warpdressers Association, and the YSTC continued its affiliation until 1970, when the General Union was...
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Peter Drinkwater (category People of the Industrial Revolution)
Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 23 December 2013 Nevell, Michael (2007), "The Social Archaeology of Industrialisation:...
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