Allied Printing Trades Association
In March 1911, five international unions created the Allied Printing Trades Association:
- International Typographical Union
- Pressman
- Bookbinders
- Photo Engravers
- Stereotypers and Electrotypers Unions
In 1955, there was a new agreement, and the following unions were included in the association:
- United Papermakers and Paperworkers
- The Newspaper Guild
- The International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers
- The Plate Printers
- Die Stampers and Engravers
The Mailer unions chartered by the ITU were eligible for membership in Allied Printing Trades Councils. The International Mailers Union was refused memberhip.
Read more about this topic: International Typographical Union
Famous quotes containing the words allied, printing, trades and/or association:
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)
“It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself cannot stand upon it.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)