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Scottish Painters' Society

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Scottish Painters' Society
Merged intoAmalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators
Founded1898
Dissolved1963
Headquarters6 Fitzroy Place, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Location
  • Scotland
Members
3,000 (1900)
12,112 (1962)[1]
PublicationScottish Painters' Journal
AffiliationsTUC, Labour

The Scottish Painters' Society was a trade union representing painters and decorators in Scotland.

The union was founded in 1898, as the Scottish National Federation of House and Ship Painters. By the end of the year, it had 1,227 members, and by 1900 this had risen to more than 3,000. Around this date, if became the Scottish Amalgamated Society of House and Ship Painters, then in 1903, it simplified its name, becoming the "Scottish Painters' Society".[2][3]

The union merged into the Amalgamated Society of Painters and Decorators in 1963.[2]

General Secretaries

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1899: Archibald Gardner
1924: Dugald McLean
1945: William Peat
1962: A. Black

References

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  1. ^ "Names and addresses of Secretaries and Delegates appointed". Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress: 36. 1962.
  2. ^ a b Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria (1987). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 3. Aldershot: Gower Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 0566021625.
  3. ^ "Records of the Scottish Painters' Society (Aberdeen Branch)". Archives Hub. Jisc. Retrieved 28 June 2018.