The London Society of Compositors was a British trade union , representing print workers in London .
3-878: The union was founded as the London Union of Compositors in 1834 by the merger of the London Trade Society of Compositors and the London General Trade Society of Compositors . The following year, it was joined by the News Society of Compositors . In 1845, the union was officially dissolved, its members designating it the South Eastern District of the National Typographical Association . The national organisation collapsed, and
6-727: The Printing Machine Managers' Trade Society and was renamed the London Typographical Society . In 1964, it merged with the Typographical Association to form the National Graphical Association . The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in several Parliamentary elections, many of whom won election. National Typographical Association Too Many Requests If you report this error to
9-667: The London group re-established itself as the "London Society of Compositors". The union had a membership of over 10,000 by 1910, and attempted to expand outside London, but the Trades Union Congress instituted arbitration which limited it to a fifteen-mile radius of central London, the Typographical Association having rights to organise in the remainder of England. In 1955, the Society merged with
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