National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants

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The National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants (NATSOPA) was a British trade union.

History

Formed as part of the New Unionism movement in September 1889, the union was originally named the Printers' Labourers' Union and was led by George Evans. In 1899, it was renamed the Operative Printers' Assistants Union, and in 1904 it became the National Society of Operative Printers' Assistants, taking the acronym NATSOPA for the first time. In 1911, it assumed its long-term name, the "National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants". By this point, it had 4,722 members, and it grew rapidly, having 25,000 members in 92 branches by 1929.

In 1966, the union merged with the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers, becoming Division 1 of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT), but in 1970 the failure to agree a common rulebook led to Division 1 leaving to become the National Society of Operative Printers and Media Personnel. In 1972, it merged with the Sign and Display Trade Union,[1] and in 1982 it again merged with SOGAT, on this occasion the merger proving successful.

Election results

The union sponsored George Isaacs as a Labour Party candidate in each general election and two by-elections between 1918 and 1955.[2]

Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position
1918 general election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 2,027 22.4 3
1922 general election Gravesend Script error: No such module "Sort". 7,180 35.6 2[3]
1923 general election Gravesend Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,776 43.4 1
1924 general election Gravesend Script error: No such module "Sort". 10,969 41.6 2
1927 by-election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 6,167 36.9 2[4]
1929 general election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 9,660 45.8 1[5]
1931 general election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 7,053 35.1 2[6]
1935 general election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 8,007 49.8 2[7]
1939 by-election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 5,815 57.4 1[8]
1945 general election Southwark North Script error: No such module "Sort". 5,943 69.0 1[9]
1950 general election Southwark Script error: No such module "Sort". 35,049 68.3 1[10]
1951 general election Southwark Script error: No such module "Sort". 36,586 72.3 1[11]
1955 general election Southwark Script error: No such module "Sort". 28,174 70.3 1[12]

Leadership

General Secretaries

1889: George Evans
1890: Thomas O'Grady
1897: Michael Vaughan
1898: Eddie Smith
1909: George Isaacs
1948: Harry Good
1951: Richard Briginshaw
1975: Owen O'Brien

Presidents

1889: James Keep[13]
1891: Frederick Quinn[13]
1893: James Keep[13]
1898: Eddie Smith[13]
1899: Harry Cook[13]
1901: J. B. Sullivan[13]
1904: George Cullen[13]
1905: J. B. Sullivan[13]
1907: James Keep[13]
1910: A. Bispham[13]
1917: J. C. Mead[13]
1920: George T. Bevan[13]
1929: William Plunkett[13]

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Catalogue of the Natsopa archives
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-272. Note that this list is of the sanctioned candidates as of June 1922, and there were some changes between this date and the general election.
  4. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1927), pp.9–13
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  8. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1945). Affiliations are those as of mid-1945; it is possible that some MPs may have had different sponsors at the time of their election.
  9. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248
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  12. ↑ Labour Party, Report of the Fifty-Fourth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-275
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References

  • Arthur Marsh, Victoria Ryan and John B. Smethurst, Historical Directory of Trade Unions
  • James Moran, Natsopa: Seventy-five Years

External links


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