Leeds Trades Council information

Leeds Trades Council is an organisation bringing together trade unionists in Leeds, in northern England. The council was founded in 1860, and remained...

Council and Bolton Trades Council founded 1860 – London Trades Council and Leeds Trades Council founded 1861 – Dundee Trades Union Council founded 1864 –...

called for a citywide protest against the increase. A week later, the Leeds Trades Council hosted a Labour conference intended to organise mass rent resistance...

Administrative Council. Trickett was also active in anti-fascist and anti-war movements, and was a delegate to the Leeds Trades Council. Later he was the...

Labour Party, he stood against the secretary of Leeds Trades Council in Armley in the 1909 Leeds City Council election. The following year, he argued that...

doubled membership to 900. Sclare was elected to the executive of Leeds Trades Council, and as the union expanded, it offered many new facilities to members...

The president of the Trades Union Congress is a prominent but largely honorary position in British trade unionism. Initially, the post of president was...

finishing a poor third. For his 1900 Leeds candidature, Byles was endorsed as candidate by the Leeds Trades Council who then sought to get him endorsed...

Britain, and in 1948 he was additionally elected to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, although he was removed from that office in 1949...

David Prentis, Baron Prentis of Leeds (born 29 May 1948) is a British trade unionist and former General Secretary of UNISON, the United Kingdom's largest...

Smelters Halifax James Parker 3,276 16.1 4 ILP Leeds East William Pollard Byles 1,266 19.7 3 Leeds Trades Council Leicester Ramsay MacDonald 4,164 13.0 4 ILP...

as president of the Leeds Trades Council. After the First World War, Leonora and her family moved back to Clarendon Road, Leeds. By 1923, Cohen became...

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was established in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science...

described as an early national trades council. The first TUC meeting was held in 1868 when the Manchester and Salford Trades Council convened the founding meeting...

to Manchester) and the Manchester & Leeds Railway (later the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway) (running from Leeds to Manchester and Burnley). Hebden Bridge...

1979) was a British labour activist and organiser. Loughlin was born in Leeds, England. Her father, Thomas, was a boot and shoe operative of Irish descent...

incorporated trade crafts federated as the Trades House in 1605 to match the power and influence in the town council of the earlier Merchants' Guilds who established...

small workshops practising a wide variety of specialised and highly skilled trades, encouraged exceptional levels of creativity and innovation; this provided...

Leeds City Council. The council restored parts of the abbey and made it safe for public enjoyment before opening it in 1895. Although central Leeds has...