General Union of Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers' Association
Unusually for a textile union, it covered workers in a variety of materials, including cotton, wool and worsted.It was also unusual in that it did not provide any support for industrial action, but instead saw its principal purpose as an employment exchange, helping unemployed members find work in other mills.It lost members when the Chorley and Preston societies disaffiliated, but these later rejoined; however, membership did not recover, and by 1949 was down to only 1,040.Faced with this decline, the Bradford and Halifax societies merged with two unaffiliated bodies: the Leeds Warpdressers and the Textile Daymen and Cloth Pattern Makers, forming the Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen, the new organisation maintaining its affiliation.[1] In 1970, the union dissolved, its remaining constituents gradually merging into the Association of Preparatory Workers.