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	Amalgamation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amalgam, in chemistry, mining and dentistry, the result of the blending of mercury with another metal or alloy
		Amalgamation (politics), in politics, refers to the joining of two or more political units.
		Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union, a historical British trade union (formerly known as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers), now part of Amicus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amalgamation (297 words)

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		Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners: Ealing branch (1)
		Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Cabinetmakers and Joiners (1)
		Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers: Northumberland and Tyne district (1)
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/browser/corporate/page/corporate_AM.htm (2219 words)

	Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The first Engineering societies (Unions) were formed in the United Kingdom during the early 19th century and it was not long before they came into conflict with the judisciary.
		This society was to be called the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, was to have an appointed executive committee and be situated in London under the stewardship of William Allan and William Newton.
		Engineers employed at the Oldham firm of Hibbert and Platt had demanded the end of systematic overtime, of piecework and of the employment of unskilled labour to work machinery.
	www2.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/holdings/genealogy/ase-copy (974 words)

	Agricultural
		Beyond all doubt the first trade union in Auckland was a branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, which obtained its charter on May 29, 1863.
		Two Carpenters' Societies were still in existence, and on October 8, 1886, the lumpers, by resolution, disbanded, and distributed the funds amongst the members.
		An enquiry held by the Council in to the complaint of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers that the strikers were running their boats short handed in the engine-room, exonerated the Seamen's Union, which body had spent 910 Pounds on the strike and was appealing for funds, towards which the bootmakers donated 20 Pounds.
	www.geocities.com /nzhistory/Auckland/Walsh.htm (2725 words)

	Amalgamated Society of Engineers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amalgamated Society of Engineers may refer to one of the following trade unions:
		Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union in the United Kingdom, known as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers from 1851 until 1920
		Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Australia), which was renamed the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1921
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amalgamated_Society_of_Engineers (125 words)

	The Samuel Griffith Society: Volume 6: Chapter Eleven
		He also said that Engineers did not enable the Commonwealth to deal with States and their agencies as if they were subjects, nor provide as against States the full range of remedies and sanctions which are available against subjects.
		After Engineers, the starting point was the Commonwealth.27 Judicially speaking, and notwithstanding occasional gallant exceptions, the Constitution has been moulded to meet the convenience of the Commonwealth, with the States and their instrumentalities subject to Commonwealth law.
		Counsel for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Menzies endeavoured to secure victory for his clients by arguing that the functions involved were trading, not governmental, and thus not affected by Griffith's federalist legacies.
	www.samuelgriffith.org.au /papers/html/volume6/v6chap11.htm (3520 words)

	Amalgamated Society of Engineers - Australian Trade Union Archives Trade Union entry
		Established in 1851, the original Amalgamated Engineering Union was merely a branch of the British union.
		This union remained the Australian division of the British Amalgamated Engineering Union until 1969 when it became autonomous, shortening its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union [AEU] to reflect this.
		Further amalgamations in 1976 with the Federated Shipwrights' and the Federated Moulders' (Metals) Union in 1983 changed the focus and the name of the union but by 1985 it had become known once again as the Amalgamated Metal Workers' Union.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0062b.htm (329 words)

	Australasian Society of Engineers (ii) - Australian Trade Union Archives Trade Union entry
		The Australasian Society of Engineers was established in 1890, first federally registered as a trade union in 1910 and became defunct in February 1938.
		A quick succession of amalgamations in September 1992 to the Australian Glass Workers’ Union and then in November 1992 to a number of unions representing brushmakers, rope and cordage workers and carpenters and joiners caused the union to reregister on both occasions but under the same name.
		This union was not related to the Amalgamated Society of Engineers which later became the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0112b.htm (267 words)

	Amicus the Union - History of AEEU
		This was followed soon after by the formation of the ETU in 1868, after the Amalgamated Society of Engineers refused membership to electricians.
		Important changes were made before this went ahead to prevent the kind of abuses and ballot rigging of which the ETU Communists were found guilty in 1961 and to ensure that the unions were truly democratic.
		The Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) was formed in 1852.
	www.amicustheunion.org /Default.aspx?page=76 (357 words)

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		The Court extended the weekly hiring provision in the ASE award to the Australasian Society of Engineers and the Blacksmiths’ Society in 1922.
		While in the proceeding decade the Engineers’ Society had seen Mort’s as a good employer, during the 1920s the union repeatedly dealt with complaints by Mort’s workers and breaches of the award.
		During the 1924 Engineers’ Case the number employed in the workshop exceeded the number employed outside and from the mid-1920s until the onset of the Depression in 1928, the number of constant engineers employed at Mort’s averaged 120.
	www.historycooperative.org /proceedings/asslh/cockfield.html (6581 words)

	Trade Union Movement in Britain - MSN Encarta
		There was also a railway workers’ union, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Services, formed in 1871, and a Scottish railwaymen’s union and London-based Amalgamated Gas Stokers’ Union formed in 1872.
		The dispute that had a massive impact on trade union development and on society was the London Dockers' Strike.
		In this case the House of Lords upheld a judgement in favour of the Taff Vale Railway against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the damages and legal costs totalling £42,000.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_122600521_2/Trade_Union_Movement_in_Britain.html (2331 words)

	Trade Union and Labour related Collections - The University of Melbourne Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Geelong Branch
		Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Richmond Branch
		Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, Victorian Branch
	www.lib.unimelb.edu.au /collections/archives/unionlist.html (633 words)

	Tours of Scotland, my native homeland.
		Barnes was a maintenance engineer and gradually improved his skills by attending classes in engineering drawing and machine construction at Woolwich Arsenal.
		In 1889 George Barnes was elected to the executive of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.
		In 1896 Barnes became a full-time union official when he was elected as General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /george-barnes.htm (1065 words)

	People's Voice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An eleven year career in the Government railways as an engine fitter had seen him become a leading member of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (four times president between 1889 and 1898), the Railway Service Mutual Association, and the Trades and Labour Council of South Australia (TLC).
		Batchelor was first elected to the TLC, as a delegate of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, in 1889, and was first treasurer and then secretary in 1892 and 1893.
		He was one of the most important of the foundation members of the United Labor Party (ULP) in 1891, holding the position of Secretary from 1892-1896, and serving as President in 1898.
	www.peoplesvoice.gov.au /stories/nt/batchelor/batchelor_n.htm (447 words)

	JCU - JCU Library Archives
		In 1920, the Society changed its name to the Amalgamated Engineering Union and steady growth in the local area saw the formation of a second branch at Oonoonba and in all major northern provincial centres.
		With the amalgamation with the Sheet Metal Workers Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society in 1972, it became Australia's largest trade union and this position was enhanced in 1976 when it was joined by the Shipwrights and Ship Constructors Union.
		AMWSU/MISC/10 Posters on the Amalgamation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, The Sheet Metal Workers' Union and the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society, 1972.
	www.library.jcu.edu.au /Specials/Archives/amwsu.shtml (979 words)

	Archive Record (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Administrative/Biographical history: The Union was founded as the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1851 by the coming together of a number of separate organisations for mechanics, smiths, millwrights, engineers and machinists.
		In 1970 the Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians' Association amalgamated with the Union and the Constructional Engineering Union to become the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW).
		The AUEW amalgamation was not successful and in 1985 the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section left the amalgamation.
	www.genesis.ac.uk /archive.jsp?typeofsearch=i&term=notimpl&highlight=1&pk=543 (830 words)

	TUC \| History Online
		The construction of the railway network, almost complete by 1847, had stimulated the growth of the coal, iron and (later) steel and engineering industries.
		These new unions, like the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) 1851 (the 'model' on which others were based), were organised nationally and highly centralised.
		Strikes did take place (for example the engineers' strike of 1852 and the protracted London builders' strike of 1859-60), but caution was to be exercised in the use of the "double edged (strike) weapon" (Robert Applegarth, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenter and Joiners).
	www.unionhistory.info /timeline/1850_1880.php (921 words)

	The Steam Engine Makers' Society: An Introduction
		The records of the Steam Engine Maker's Society are a unique source, providing detailed information about many aspects of individual lives from 1835 to the First World War; details concerning unemployment, sickness, aging and migration which are available from no other source.
		The Steam Engine Makers' Society (SEM) was a union of engineers founded in Liverpool in 1824 which expanded to limited national coverage in the late 1830s.
		It took part in the discussions which led to the creation of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) in 1851 but the majority of the membership rejected the advice of the Liverpool-based executive and chose to stay independent.
	www.geog.port.ac.uk /lifeline/sem_db/sem_history.html (1744 words)

	AAS Biographical Memoirs - James Arthur Prescott 1890-1987 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		2 Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers from 1858 to 1893 and was chairman of the strike committee during the strike of iron-workers in 1887.
		In 1897 he was appointed management engineer with the cotton textile firm of Crépy at Lille in northern France and the family, then with three children, moved to that city.
		The Society's main source of income was derived from the sale of fertilizer, mainly nitrate of soda from Chile, and part of the duty of the Chief Chemist and his staff was to check the quality of this fertilizer before distribution and sale.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/aasmemoirs/prescott.htm (9645 words)

	Bisbee Deportation: The I.W.W--It's History, Structure and Methods, Exhibit 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.
		In harmony with the theory and the established facts of evolution, the Industrial Workers of the World holds that the general tendency of the organism we call Society is progressive--that is, from lower or less finished forms and functions, to ever higher and more nearly finished forms and functions, approaching the infinity of perfection.
		Its crowning achievement is the Age of Machinery, bringing into existence an enormous increase in wealth and in the capacity for producing the accessories of an ever-richer civilization; in short; transforming the face of Society in a manner undreamed of prior to its advent.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /bisbee/docs/019.htm (7786 words)

	Amalgamated Society of Engineers
		This included the Steam Engine Makers' Society (1824), Friendly Society of Mechanics (1826) and the Friendly Society of Engineers (1833).
		The result was the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Smiths, Millwrights and Patternmakers, an organisation with 10,841 members.
		In July 1897 Amalgamated Society of Engineers Barnes led the in a long strike in an attempt to win an eight-hour day.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUengineers.htm (341 words)

	A Catalogue of the papers of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers 1846-1920.
		The Amalgamated Society of Engineers was formed in 1851 through proposals drawn up by three unions, the Old Mechanics, the Steam Engine Makers' Society and the General Smiths.
		However, almost immediately the union was nearly bankrupted through the engineering lock-out of 1852 where employers demanded that workers sign a declaration stating they would not join a trade union movement.
		The Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Smiths, Millwrights and Patternmakers
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/259ase.htm (2310 words)

	AMWU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		On 1 January 1852 in England the members of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers imposed a ban on overtime in support of better rights and conditions.
		In 1920 the union amalgamated to become the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
		In 1972 in Australia the ‘sheeties’ and the boilermakers amalgamated with the AEU to form the AMWU.
	www.amwu.asn.au /?action=LoadArticle&ID=662 (3070 words)

	British Emigration to North America 57001822
		Propositions and Suggestions for the Consideration of the Members of the Amalgamated 282 Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths, and Pattern Makers.
		Propositions and Suggestions for the Consideration of the Various Branches of the Amal- gamated Society of Engineers, Machinists, Millwrights, Smiths, and Pattern Makers.
		Francis Scott, M.P., in November, 1848, on Moving a Resolution for the Establishment of a Branch of the Colonization Society at Leeds.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/becites/genealogy/immigrant/57001822.refs.html (5079 words)

	glossary2.html
		Burns, John Elliott (1858-1943), a British machinist and a leader of the 1889 London dockers' strike, joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1879.
		Holmes, David (1843-1906), was president of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association (1884-1906) and a member of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC (1892-1900, 1902-3).
		Lewis, John Llewellyn (1880-1969), born in Cleveland, Iowa, was a founding member and secretary in 1901 of United Mine Workers of America 1933 of Chariton, Iowa.
	www.history.umd.edu /Gompers/glossary2.html (1286 words)

	Special collections
		In 1914 he joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (later the Amalgamated Engineering Union) and served as a shop steward at Hadfields, Tinsley, during the First World War.
		From 1918 to 1934 he was a tutor and held classes in Sheffield, South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire on Economics, Industrial and Social History, Social Development, Philosophy and Chairmanship, as well as delivering many lectures to AEU branches during the period.
		Apart from his Labour and Trade Union activities, Madin served on the Rent Tribunal from 1946, became a Justice of the Peace in 1947 and became a member of the Board of Governors of Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in 1948.
	www.shef.ac.uk /library/special/madin.html (612 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Alexander Bruce was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, probably in 1838 or 1839, the son of a master mariner.
		He had joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in Aberdeen in 1861, and after his death it was claimed that he had come to New Zealand with a charter to form a branch of this society, and that he had established the branch in Auckland.
		This charter is preserved in the Auckland office of the Engineers' Union.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1B40&related=false (565 words)

	The New Model Trade Unions, 1851 onwards
		The first one was the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, formed in 1851.
		CHARACTERISTICS OF THE N.M.T.Us they were single craft unions: for example, the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters.
		Men like William Allen (Amalgamated Society of Engineers) and Robert Applegarth (Amalgamated Society of Carpenters) became national figures.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/terrace/adw03/peel/peel/trade-us/nmtu.htm (227 words)

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