Cardroom Amalgamation

Cardroom Amalgamation
Amalgamated Association of Card and Blowing and Ring Room Operatives
Merged intoAmalgamated Textile Workers' Union
Founded1886
Dissolved1974
Headquarters81 Fountain Street, Manchester
Location
Members
52,000 (1910)
AffiliationsTUC, UTFWA

The Cardroom Amalgamation or Cardroom Workers' Amalgamation (CWA)[1] was a British trade union which existed between 1886 and 1974. It represented workers in the cotton textile industry.

  1. ^ Joseph L. White, The Limits of Trade Union Militancy, p.240, note 9