This collection contains records of the Aberdeen branch of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, and its predecessors. The chronology and relationships of the predecessor organisations have not been firmly established, and the provenance of some records is uncertain. For the purpose of this collection level description, all of these records are described as a single group. The contents include:
Contribution books, 1898 - 1946; contribution cards, 1912 - 1951; unemployment books, 1921 - 1936; misc. correspondence, 1929 - 1950; printed rules and regulations, 1884 - c. 1929; printed annual reports and balance sheets, 1941 - 1950; The Garment Worker: the official organ of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers , 1944 - 1952 (incomplete); Labour: the official organ of the T.U.C. , 1941 - 1952 (incomplete); misc. printed papers, 1940 - 1951 (including publicity and posters re. union membership, 1945 - 1951, and Trade Union and Labour Party literature, 1940 - 1951)