Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room and Ring Frame Operatives' Association

Reports, 1888-1901.

The Oldham Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association was founded in 1880, probably succeeding another association founded in the 1870s. Following a major strike in 1885, which led to a quadrupling of membership, it was reorganised and renamed the Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room Operatives' Association in December 1885. It was renamed the Oldham Provincial Card and Blowing Room and Ring Frame Operatives' Association in about 1899 and the Oldham Provincial Union of Textile and Allied Workers in 1968. In 1986 it transferred its engagements to the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trades Union (GMB).

This collection is available to researchers by appointment at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. See https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/using/

Link to full catalogue: https://mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk/records/OPC

Material transferred from University of Warwick Library in 2003

See also MSS.192 (GMB); South-East Lancashire Card and Blowing Room Operatives' (Provincial) Association; Bolton and District Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives' Provincial Association; Northern Counties Amalgamated Association of Weavers and Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen. The main archives of the union are held by Oldham Local Studies and Archives