Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades

ASTWKT
Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades
Merged intoManufacturing, Science and Finance
FoundedOctober 1919
Dissolved2000
HeadquartersMarket Place, Leek, Staffordshire
Location
Members
2,059 (1946)[1]
3,561 (1982)[2]
Key people
William Bromfield (Gen Sec)
PublicationTextile Voice[2]
AffiliationsTUC, General Federation of Trade Unions, Labour

The Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades (ASTWKT) was a trade union representing textile workers, principally silk manufacturing, in the United Kingdom.

  1. ^ Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, p.77
  2. ^ a b Marsh, Arthur (1984). Trade Union Handbook (3 ed.). Aldershot: Gower. pp. 352–353. ISBN 0566024268.