Catalogue Number
NMLH.2014.20.34
Object Name
Badge
Description
The Birmingham Wire Drawers Society, the Halifax No.1 Thick Wire Drawers Society and the Manchester Wire Drawers Society were all founded in 1840 with the common aim of organising craft-apprentice trained wire drawers. It was these 3 socieities that collaborated to form the Federated Wire Drawers Association, and later amalgamated to form the Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers of Great Britain. These 3 original affiliates were joined in 1901 by the Sheffield Wire Drawers Society, the Ambergate Wire Drawers Society, the Warrington Wire Drawers Society, the Middlesborough Wire Drawers Society and the Halifax No.2 union. The union title was changed to the Amalgamated Society of Wire Drawers and Kindred Workers in 1904. The union federated to the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation from February 1921 until March 1924 when the federation ceased as a result of differences between the two organisations. The union is based in Sheffield and claims to be the only remainign union in the world
for wire drawers.
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