Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland

The Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland was a trade union representing stonemasons in Scotland. While never a large union, it brought together all the unionised stonemasons in the country.

Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland
Founded1919
PredecessorUnited Operative Masons' Association of Scotland
United Operative Masons' and Granite Cutters' Union
Date dissolved1942
Merged intoAmalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
Members5,000 (1942)
JournalBuilding and Monumental Workers' Trade Journal[1]
Office location65 West Regent Street, Glasgow
CountryScotland

The union was founded in 1919, when the United Operative Masons' Association of Scotland merged with the United Operative Masons' and Granite Cutters' Union,[1] the Associated Paviors' Federal Union, and the Scottish Amalgamated Society of Mosaic and Encaustic Tile Fixers, Marble Workers and Fireplace Builders.[2]

Membership of the union was 5,000 in 1924,[3] and it was still 5,000 in 1942. However, it had built up a healthy reserve fund of £18,000. That year, it decided to merge into the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, which already represented stonemasons in England and Wales.[1]

General Secretaries
1919: Hugh McPherson[4]
1937: David Black

References
  1. Marsh, Arthur; Ryan, Victoria (1987). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 3. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Company. p. 9. ISBN 0566021625.
  2. "Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland". Archives Hub. Jisc. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  3. International Labour Directory. 6. International Labour Office. 1925. p. 95.
  4. "Obituary: Hugh McPherson". Report of the Annual Conference of the Labour Party: 69. 1937.
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