Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association
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The Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association was a trade union
in the United Kingdom
for workers in the post office
and telecommunication
s industries. It was founded in 1881 and in 1919 became part of the Union of Post Office Workers (later to be renamed Union of Communication Workers
) by the merger of the Postmen's Federation, Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association and the Fawcett Association. It achieved official recognition, and as a result, in 1920 the London Postal Porters' Association, Central London Postmen's Association, Tracers' Association, Tube Staff Association, Messengers' Association and Sorters' Association all merged with it.
General Secretaries:
1881: T Wilkinson
1881 - 1886 T Morris
1886 - 1890 JE Scott
1890 - 1897 TD Venables
1898 - 1903 CE Hall
1903 - 1906 Thomas McKinney
1906 - 1910 William Johnson
1910 - 1914 ER Tuck
1914 - 1919 JG Newlove
Trade union
A trade union, trades union or labor union is an organization of workers that have banded together to achieve common goals such as better working conditions. The trade union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labour contracts with...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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for workers in the post office
Post office
A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
and telecommunication
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
s industries. It was founded in 1881 and in 1919 became part of the Union of Post Office Workers (later to be renamed Union of Communication Workers
Union of Communication Workers
The Union of Communication Workers was a trade union in the United Kingdom for workers in the post office and telecommunications industries. It was founded in 1919 as the Union of Post Office Workers by the merger of the Postmen's Federation, Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association and the...
) by the merger of the Postmen's Federation, Postal and Telegraph Clerks' Association and the Fawcett Association. It achieved official recognition, and as a result, in 1920 the London Postal Porters' Association, Central London Postmen's Association, Tracers' Association, Tube Staff Association, Messengers' Association and Sorters' Association all merged with it.
General Secretaries:
1881: T Wilkinson
1881 - 1886 T Morris
1886 - 1890 JE Scott
1890 - 1897 TD Venables
1898 - 1903 CE Hall
1903 - 1906 Thomas McKinney
1906 - 1910 William Johnson
1910 - 1914 ER Tuck
1914 - 1919 JG Newlove