Catalogue Number
NMLH.2014.20.27
Object Name
Badge
Description
The Civil Service Clerical Association began life as the Assistant Clerks' Association in 1903, a union formed to petition the Treasury for an increase in their annual salary of £55. By 1911 the degree of organisation within the union had increased and there were branches existing in every overnment department except for the Stationery Office. In 1920 there were a series of amalgamations with the Engineering Clerical Assistants Association of the Post Office, a number of smaller departmental organisations and the exclusively female Writing Assistants and Typists Association; the newly amalgamated union was titled the Clerical Officers Association. After the amalgamation of the Civil Service Union in 1921 the name was changed again to the Civil Service Clerical Association. It also later joined with some small organisations existing in the War Department. In 1969 the union ran a competition amongst its members to find a new name for the union. The resulting name was the Civil and
Public Services Association.
The Latin inscription on the badge 'non sibi sed omnibus' translates as 'not for oneself but for all'.
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