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Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University

Post Office Engineering Union


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1924 POEU

Held at: Trades Union Congress (TUC) Library Collections at London Metropolitan University

Title: Post Office Engineering Union

Date(s): 1916-1968

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Post Office Engineering and Stores Association
Amalgamated Engineering and Stores Association
Post Office Engineering Union

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Post Office Engineering Department was created in 1870. As a consequence, many local linesmen's associations developed. In 1886 a number of the associations merged to form the Postal Telegraphs Linesmen's Movement. In 1896 the name was changed to the Amalgamated Association of Postal Telegraphs, and the union opened its ranks to unskilled workers, construction hands and storemen. In 1901 it changes its title again, to the Post Office Engineering and Stores Association. In 1915 the Association merged with the Amalgamated Society of Telephone Employees to form the Amalgamated Engineering and Stores Association. The title of Post Office Engineering Union (POEU) was adopted in 1919. In 1985 the Union amalgamated with the Post and Telecommunications Group of the Civil and Public Servants Association fo them the National Communications Union (now the Communication Workers Union).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Post Office Engineering Union (POEU), formerly the Post Office Engineering and Stores Associstion. 1916-1917, 1926-1928, 1947-1960, 1964-1968, comprising:
Post Office Engineering and Stores Association, Electric Light and Power Branch: Branch and Committee minutes, 1916-1917;
Post Office Engineering Union: Eectric Light and Power Branch: Committee minutes, 1926-1928;
POEU: Post Office Railway (London) Branch (Mount Pleasant): branch minutes 1947-1960;
POEU LPR Branch (St Martin Le Grand later Mount Pleasant): branch minutes, 1964-1968.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronological

Conditions governing access:

Open to bona fide researchers at the discretion of the TUC Librarian.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the TUC Librarian and subject to copyright conditions.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

List available in the TUC Library.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Steve Jones, Branch Secretary, London Postal Engineering Branch, Communication Workers Union, 1997.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for theConstruction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Telecommunications industry | Communication industry
Trade unions | Labour relations

Personal names

Corporate names
Amalgamated Engineering and Stores Association
Post Office Engineering and Stores Association
Post Office Engineering Union
TUC | Trades Union Congress x Trades Union Congress

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe