Still others detailed the first all-women's strike in the United States by the United Tailoresses Society near Church Street, the first Chinese American community in the city once located at the South Street Seaport, John Jacob Astor's "problematic exchanges —commercial, ecological and spiritual" with Native Americans at his former headquarters on the north side of Pine between William and Pearl Streets, and still another temporary marker recalled the melting down of a gilded equestrian statue depicting King George III whose metal was molded into bullets later used during the War of Independence.
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This union provided money and an organiser's time to the fledgling Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch tailoresses' unions. The DTU ceased to exist in June 1945.
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Swanton was a Founder president of the Perth Tailoresses' Union from 1900 to 1905 until it became part of the Tailors' Union. She was the representative to the Trades and Labour Council. Her main area of activism was to reduce child labour in the Perth clothing trades followed by health issues. Swanton became the first woman elected president of the Tailors and Tailoresses' Union of Western Australia in 1907.
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This last point became increasingly controversial within the union and, in 1900, it finally created a female section, and changed its name to the "Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses". Members of the Female Section paid lower contributions, but also receive fewer benefits from the union. In 1905, 900 members in London split away, led by James MacDonald, to form the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, after their requests to operate on a largely independent, federal basis were rejected. Despite this, the Amalgamated Society continued to grow, reaching 12,000 members in 1911, and including workers in closely related trades from 1927, when it adopted the name Amalgamated Society of Tailors, Tailoresses and Kindred Workers.
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The union was founded as the Tailors and Garment Workers' Union (T&GWU;) in 1920 with the merger of the Scottish Operative Tailors and Tailoresses' Association and the United Garment Workers' Union. In 1932, it was joined by the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and renamed itself as the "National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers". In 1939 it absorbed the United Ladies Tailors' Trade Union. The NUTGW had 118,700 members in 1945, making it the tenth largest union in Britain.
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The Dunedin Tailoresses’ Union (DTU) was established on 14 February 1889 by local labour leaders and citizens (all men) of New Zealand who were concerned about conditions and pay for working women and wanted to form a committee to negotiate with employers. Initially, the union was run by men, but in 1891 Maria Selina Hale became its secretary and 13 other women became executives with her. Thereafter, management of this union was quickly controlled by women. It pursued a broad feminist programme, and assisted in the formation of tailoresses’ unions in other centres.
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Waddell was a believer in the value of trade unions, and became the first president of the Tailoresses' Union of New Zealand in July 1889. Kathleen Waddell died in 1920 and Rutherford Waddell married Christabel Duncan in 1923. He died in Dunedin on 16 April 1932.
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The first women's union founded by the league in London was the bookbinders' in 1874. Unions of upholstresses, shirt-makers, tailoresses, and dressmakers quickly followed. In 1875 Mrs. Paterson was a delegate to the Trade Union Congress at Glasgow as a representative of the bookbinders' and upholstresses' societies.
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Under his leadership, the union began accepting women as members and changed its name to the "Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses". The union's membership increased, despite MacDonald leading a split in 1905.Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, vol.5, pp.
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Samuelene "Lena" Purcell (25 July 1898 - 20 December 1982) was a New Zealand shop assistant and trade unionist. She was born in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand in 1898. She was active as a trade unionist from the 1920s to the 1960s and, alongside Alice Cossey of the tailoresses' union, was Auckland's most prominent female unionist during that time.
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In 1890–91, she marched with workers from Manningham Mills in Bradford. As a result of her involvement, she was elected a life member of the Leeds Trades and Labour Council. She helped found the Leeds Independent Labour Party (ILP) and was president of the Leeds Tailoresses' Union. Her concerns were trade union organisation, socialism and female suffrage.
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Ford joined the Leeds Socialist League. Together with her sisters and Scatcherd she supported strikes of women weavers and the tailoresses in 1888 and 1889 with practical assistance and contributions towards the strike fund. In the early 1880s Ford became interested in spiritualism and joined the Society for Psychical Research. Ford's religious convictions, feminism and social politics underwent profound change.
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Membership was only 506, but in 1895 Pitts moved to become treasurer, with Young becoming general secretary, and the union began a steady growth, membership reaching 1,400 in 1900, and 3,337 in 1910. It continued to rise rapidly, and by the start of World War I its membership was nearly equal to that of the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses (AST&T;), the leading union in the industry. It proposed a merger, but the AST&T; rejected this, fearing it would be dominated by the more radical AUCO. In 1915, the union instead completed a merger with the Amalgamated Jewish Tailors', Machinists' and Pressers' Trade Union, the London and Provincial Clothiers' Cutters' Trade Union, the London Jewish Tailors Union, the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union, forming the United Garment Workers' Trade Union.
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About one-third of Dunedin women signed the petition, a higher percentage than any other city. New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was created in Dunedin in 1889. From the late 1880s onwards middle-class reformers and worker activists investigated poor working conditions in Dunedin. Labour manifestos in the 1880s demanded the exclusion of Chinese as they were seen as working for low wages.
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S. P. Dobbs and Sidney Webb (1928), The Clothing Workers of Great Britain, p. 132 In 1920, it merged with the Scottish Operative Tailors and Tailoresses Association to form the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.Tailors' unions - National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, Working Class Movement Library The union's general secretary was Joseph Young, its financial secretary was Moses Sclare, and its organiser was Andrew Conley.
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Contact with these girls gave Ford and her sisters an insight into class differences and an interest in working conditions. When she was 16, she began teaching at her father's school. In the 1880s, Ford became involved with trade unions. She worked with tailoresses who were campaigning for better working conditions; she helped them to form a trade union and was involved when they went on strike in 1889.
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He was one of the founders of the Canterbury Trades Council, and was successively its vice-president, president, and treasurer. Jenkinson helped to form the first Labour Day Demonstration Committee, of which he was treasurer for many years and a trustee. He was the first president of the Kingsley Club, which was formed for social unity, and he is president and honorary life member of the Tailoresses' Union.
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Alderman James McCarron (1851 – 10 October 1918) was an Irish trade unionist. McCarron came to prominence as a leading figure in the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, based in Derry. In the early 1890s, he was the secretary of the local branch, and was imprisoned in the aftermath of a strike.C. Desmond Greaves, The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, p.6 Soon becoming the most prominent member of his union in Ireland,Ed.
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David Black and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical Register of Members of Parliament, Vol 1, 1870-1930 After returning to Perth in about 1907, Stubbs became a prominent leader of the labour movement. He represented the Perth Tailors and Tailoresses Union at various labour conferences and congresses and, by 1911, the year the Trades Hall was opened in Perth, he had become the president of the Metropolitan Council of the Australian Labour Federation.Cyclopedia of Western Australians (1912), Vol 1, Ed. J.S. Battye.
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Hally was involved in local politics much of his life. He was a Labour movement sympathiser, and in 1899 became the president of the New Zealand Federal Tailoresses' Union and later was a Dunedin City Councillor, elected to represent the Bell Ward in 1902. He was a prominent member of the union-based Workers' Political Committee, an Otago-based organisation tasked with choosing political candidates to represent workers politically. Hally was also a member of the Dunedin Catholic Literary Society.
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Gurney Rowlerson (10 July 1862 - 29 July 1944) was a British trade unionist. Rowlerson was born in Veryan, Cornwall,1901 England Census to wool agent George Walter Rowlerson and Catherine Isabella Rowlerson (née Walker).England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 He worked as a tailor and became active in the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses (ASTT). He was elected to its executive council in 1900, soon becoming a full-time employee of the union, and was elected as its general secretary in 1925.
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The focus of the young tailor's endeavours gradually shifted to improving the rights and conditions of workers. In 1896, he became a foundation member of the Perth Tailors Society and later held various offices within the organisation, including treasurer, vice-president and president, as it morphed into the Tailors Union and eventually the Amalgamated Tailors and Tailoresses Union. For several years in the mid-1900s, Stubbs worked in Kalgoorlie and represented the tailors union on the Eastern Goldfields Trades and Labor Council. In due course he served as president of that Council.
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A social reformer, he worked hard to represent men and women of the labouring classes and to improve their conditions. He was called to a seat in the New Zealand Legislative Council on 15 October 1892 as a representative of labour, and was known for his common sense, ability and courtesy. He also worked with the secretary of the New Zealand Tailoresses' Union to improve working conditions for women in that industry. He resigned from the Legislative Council on 23 October 1902, three years into his second term.
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In 1912, it grew enormously to have 3,235 members, thereafter remaining at roughly this level. In 1919, Jacob Fine became general secretary of the union, and organised mergers with as many small ladies' tailors unions as possible. On the urging of the Trades Union Congress, it discussed a possible merger with the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and the Tailors and Garment Workers Trade Union, but it decided against joining either union. However, in 1939 it did amalgamate with the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.
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Like most of the union's members, Fine was Jewish, and he found that his fluency in Yiddish helped him in the post. Fine tried to strengthen the union by organising mergers with as many smaller ladies' tailors unions as possible. On the urging of the Trades Union Congress, he discussed a possible merger with the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and the Tailors and Garment Workers Trade Union, but decided against joining either union. However, in 1939, he led it into an amalgamation with the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers (NUTGW).
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The Scottish Operative Tailors' and Tailoresses' Association was a trade union representing clothing workers in Scotland. The union was established in the 1850s as the Scottish National Operative Tailors' Trade Protection Society, and in 1860 it became the Scottish National Association of Tailors. By 1867, it had 4,500 members in 84 branches, although these initially had a great deal of autonomy, and many of the union's activities were localised until the 1890s. Already in the 1860s, its secretary and the editor of its journal worked full-time for the union, while its treasurer and president each received £12 per year.
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John Rigg experienced poverty and unemployment and this caused 'his private revolution'. He describes this and refers to his Scottish noble heritage: 'found in me the makings of a snob and left me a Socialist.'. John Rigg became active in leading apprentice printers rights and women's rights and later expressed this through his 1892 roles of president of the Wellington Tailoresses' Union, Trades and Labour Council, and Typographical Society. He was first appointed to the Legislative Council as a Labour representative on 15 October 1892, as one of four moderate union leaders appointed. He resigned on 27 May 1893. He was appointed again a fortnight later on 6 June 1893.
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The Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses (AST&T;) was a trade union representing tailors in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1866 when Peter Shorrocks convened a conference in Manchester of local societies of tailors. The conference was hugely successful, with 67 societies sending representatives, and 31 others sending messages giving their support to the formation of a national union. By the end of the year, membership of the new Amalgamated Society of Journeymen Tailors was more than 7,000, with the large majority of local societies in England and Ireland signing up, although the Scottish Amalgamated Society of Tailors remained separate.
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The first case heard by the court was a dispute between the Newcastle Wharf Laborers’ Union and the Newcastle and Hunter River Steamship Company. The court found the employer guilty of locking out its employees and it was ordered that certain union members should be employed. The court also ordered the union to provide employees to the company, and in default, the company was able to use non- union labour. Other cases heard by the court included cases concerning the Cigar Makers' Union, the Tailoresses' Union, the Saddle and Harness Makers' Union, the New South Wales Clickers' Union, the Boot Operators' and Rough Stuff Cutters' Union, the Journeymen Coopers' Union and the Trolley Draymen and Carters' Union.
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While this membership remained concentrated among the best paid tailors, it had also begun to recruit skilled workers in clothing factories. In 1900, the union admitted its first nineteen women members, and became the Scottish Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, but despite the name change, very few women were admitted, and in 1910 only five women held membership. In 1903, the union suffered a significant defeat, with employers thereafter refusing union officials the right to enter workshops, and began employing temporary workers in any number they desired. The union merged with the United Garment Workers' Trade Union in 1920, forming the Tailors' and Garment Workers' Trade Union, against the opposition of its general secretary, A. C. Craig.
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About one third of Dunedin women signed the petition, a higher percentage than any other city. In 1889 New Zealand's first women's trade union (the Tailoresses) was founded in Dunedin. From the late 1880s onwards worker activists and middle-class reformers investigated poor working conditions in Dunedin and around Otago. Labour manifestos in the 1880s demanded the exclusion of Chinese as they were seen as working for low wages. In August 1890 the Maritime Council went on strike in sympathy with Australian maritime unionists. “ In 1894 Clutha went dry followed by the Oamaru district in 1905 and Bruce in 1922 and in 1917 6pm closing was introduced for pubs. Otago sent men to fight in the Boer War in South Africa.
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McConnel née Jordan was born on 6 September 1860 at George Street, Brisbane, the daughter of politician Henry Jordan and his wife, Elizabeth (née Turner). She trained as a teacher and nurse. She was secretary of the Tailoresses' Union, was heavily involved in the formation of the Brisbane Women's Union, treasurer of the Women's Equal Franchise Association, and inaugural general secretary of the women's section of the Australian Labour Federation. It was for the Labour Federation that she would begin working for as an organiser in 1890. In March 1890, she became engaged to David Rose McConnel of Cressbook Station (first Director of the Central Technical College in Brisbane). The couple were married at Sherwood on 24 December 1890 announcing that she did not intend to relinquish her work with the Labour Federation.
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