ID21332
CollectionIrish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union
Collection DescriptionThe Irish Distributive and Administrative Trade Union merged with the Irish National Union of Vintners', Grocers' and Allied Trades Assistants Union in 1994, to form Mandate Trade Union. The information listed from this collection has been extracted from Sarah Ward-Perkins, 'Select Guide to Trade Union Records in Dublin' (Dublin, 1996). We are grateful for her assistance.
Reference
Description

Other unions including:
Amalgamated Society of Tailors, Tailoresses and Kindred Trades, rule book as revised by conference 1870-1919.

ATGWU rule book, 1939.

Commercial Employees Union, 1934-1935, affiliation to DTC, transfer to IUDWC Cork Grocers and Allied Trades Assistants Association, 1927.

Dublin Silk Trade Society, 1925-1931 amalgamation with IUDWC, rule book, court case regarding property in Donore Avenue.

Dublin Typographical Provident Society rule book, 1959 Irish Commercial Travellers Federation 1922- rule book amalgamation proposals, relations with.

Irish Garment Workers Industrial Union, 1930-1931 rule amalgamation with IUDWC.

Irish Grocers Purveyors and General Shop Assistants and Clerks Union agreement
1914.

INUVGATA, 1926- organising activities, inter-union relations.

INUW rule book, 1956.

Irish Shoe and Leather Workers Union rule book, 1968.

Irish Tailors and Tailoresses Union, 1918-1922, rule book female section c1918, balance sheets Dublin branch, proposed transfer of members.

ITGWU, 1925- rule books, 1925, 1942.

Irish Union of Hairdressing Assistants, Rule book, 1933- , proposed transfer of members, 1942

IWWU rule book, 1938.

National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association, rule book, 1941.

National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks, 1912-1923, souvenir of 21st annual delegate conference, 1912, establishment of joint council, 1922-1923

National Union of Commercial Travellers, rule book 1929.

National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, 1939-

Tailors and Garment Workers Union, 1928-1929 relations with

Vintners Grocers and Allied Trades Assistants Northern Ireland, 1928-1929, transfer of engagements, rule book.

Irish and international unions, 1930-.

iv Other unions including:
Amalgamated Society of Tailors, Tailoresses and Kindred Trades rule book as revised by conference 1870-1919.

ATGWU rule book, 1939.

Commercial Employees Union, 1934-1935 affiliation to DTC, transfer to IUDWC Cork Grocers and Allied Trades Assistants Association, 1927.

Dublin Silk Trade Society, 1925-1931 amalgamation with IUDWC rule book, court case regarding property in Donore Avenue.

Dublin Typographical Provident Society rule book, 1959, Irish Commercial Travellers Federation 1922-, rule book amalgamation proposals relations with

Irish Garment Workers Industrial Union, 1930-1931 rule amalgamation with IUDWC.

Irish Grocers Purveyors and General Shop Assistants and Clerks Union agreement, 1914.

INUVGATA, 1926- organising activities, inter-union relations.

INUW rule book, 1956.

Irish Shoe and Leather Workers Union rule book, 1968.

Irish Tailors and Tailoresses Union, 1918-1922 rule book, female section c1918 balance sheets Dublin branch, proposed transfer of members.

ITGWU, 1925- rule books, 1925, 1942.

Irish Union of Hairdressing Assistants rue book, 1933-, proposed transfer of members, 1942.

IWWU rule book, 1938.

National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association rule book, 1941.

National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks, 1912-1923, souvenir of 21st annual delegate conference, 1912, establishment of joint council, 1922-1923.

National Union of Commercial Travellers rule book, 1929.

National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, 1939-

Tailors and Garment Workers Union, 1928-1929 relations with

Vintners Grocers and Allied Trades Assistants Northern Ireland, 1928-1929, transfer of engagements, rule book.

Irish and international unions, 1930-.
Bodies to which affiliated:
Congress, 1930-
ITUC, 1930-1943, International Relations Committee, annual conferences, delegates, Trade Union Commission, Trade Union Act 1941, Emergency Powers Orders regulating wages.

CIU, 1945-1959 Council of Irish Trade Unions, establishment of CIU, meetings, Central Council, Resident Committee, applications for withdrawal of affiliated unions from DTC, councils of Irish unions, prices, memoranda, submissions, Premises Advisory Committee.

ICTU, 1959, annual and special delegate conferences, Appeals Board; committees: Clerical and Professional Workers, Commerce Industrial, Disputes, Economic, Education, Industrial Relations, Manpower, Northern Ireland, Office Premises, Trade Union Organisation, Women's Advisory, Executive minutes, Employer Labour Conference, Gorta, INPC Committee of Management, Executive Bureau, Distributive Trades Committee National Development Association Trades councils.

DTC, DCIU annual reports, 1946-1960 DCTU.

Labour Party, 1930-1940.
Opinions regarding various legislation general election, 1938.

International bodies, 1923-
International Federation of Commercial Clerical and Technical Employees.

Other files, 1926- including:
Buy Irish campaign
Commission on Vocational Organisation
Deputy Hurley memorial fund
National Co-operative Council
Summertime, Day Light Saving, Committee
Unemployment Act disputed claims
Miscellaneous and general files.

Financial Records, 96 branch registers, c1923-.

Other financial records including:
Irish Drapers Assistants Association: accounts, statements regarding branches, 1902-1910.

Head office miscellaneous and returns registers, 1956-.

Branch account books; branch return sheets, 1930-.

Monthly statements, 1917-1950.

Cheque stub books, 1944-1950.

Benefit and claims books, 1915- .

Cash book, receipts, 1929-1948.

Insurance section:
Documentation regarding administration of the National Health Insurance section of the union 1913-1936 including:
Rules and alterations in rules
Valuation reports
Additional benefits schemes
Investment of funds
Approved societies which transferred their engagements to the IUDWC Dublin Bread van Drivers Operative Society, Dublin Silk Trade Society, Irish Grocers and Vintners Assistants Health Insurance Society, Purveyors Assistants Approved Society.
Registers of contributions and benefits paid
Income and expenditure
Letter register
Postage book, recording changes of address.


Metropolitan Area records.

Parcels and files including:
Branches, 1921- annual branch meetings, branch organisation, wage claims, disputes and strikes, hours of trading orders, organisation of various categories of worker, applications for standard rate wages orders and bonus orders, questionnaire forms mostly dating from 1940s.

Other, 1919-, including agreements, general files regarding Labour Court, cost-of-living and bonus orders, DTC annual reports, affiliation of WUI, weekend retreats Rathfarnham Castle, School Attendance Committee, Juvenile Advisory Committee, weekly reports, letter books, mostly dating from the 1940s.

Dublin Branch/Dublin Central Council.
Minute books:
Branch committee and council, 1901-1936
Shirt and collar makers and factory section, 1923
Agenda books, 1923-1926
Attendance books, 1921-1929
Letter book, 1923-1925.

Parcels and files, 1924-1936 including:
Agendas, annual branch meetings, annual reports and accounts, Christmas arrangements, closing hours, Dublin Drapery Trade Joint Conciliation Board, DTC, early closing campaign, employers and firms, extension of working hours, industrial section, shirtmakers, position of the poplin industry, organisation, organising committee, questionnaires, registration of shops, salaries, Saturday closing.

Financial Records

Cash books/cash sheets, 1901-1936
Contribution books, 1912-1936 handicraft tailors, tailoresses, dressmakers, shirt-makers, divisional labour.

Dublin drapery buyers branch:
Administrative Records
Minute books, 1923-
Cash books, 1924-1929.

Dublin north city branch.
Administrative Records:
Parcels and files, 1936- including:
Annual branch meetings, annual delegate meetings, annual staff meetings house committees, application forms, attendance books, benevolent fund, branch monthly returns, bonus files, boot trade, campaign for closing on Saturday at 6pm, Christmas arrangements, Clery and Company, house committee minutes, closing hours, Coiste na bpaisti, Congress, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Drapery and Allied Trades Joint council, employers and firms, industrial section, including handicraft tailors, Shirt Making JLC, INPC, law clerks and law typists section including organisation, Law Clerks JLC, married women in employment, minutes, National Health Insurance Society, seed trade, social and benevolent fund, temporary workers, travelling salesmen, unions clerical employees, Wednesday houses, Youth Unemployment Commission.

Financial Records:
Including, 1936-, cash books, cash sheets, register sheets, arrears books, collectors books.

Dublin south city branch.
Administrative Records:

Parcels and files, c1936- including:
Agenda, annual branch meetings, annual delegate meetings, annual staff meetings, application forms assurance section and insurance firms, branch committee minutes, Central Bank, chemists, Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Drapery and Allied Trades Joint Council, DTC, ESB, employers and firms, industrial section, manufacturers agents and commercial travellers branch, organisation, welfare fund mostly dating from 1960.

Financial Records:
Including, 1936-, cash books, cash sheets, register sheets, collectors books.

Combined Dublin north city and Dublin south city branch:
Parcel and files, c.1965- including DCTU, employers and firms, ICTU, INPC.

Other branch records.
Administrative Records:

Chemists branch Minute Books, 1934-1963
Grocers and purveyors branch Minute Books, 1935-1939
Irish Assurance County officials section Minute Book, 1942-1953
Manufacturers agents and commercial travellers branch Minute Books, 1935-1966.

Cork branch, c1924-1936, including:
Cork Drapers' Club, special committee to enquire into finances of union, transcript of evidence taken before Supreme Court L L Ferguson Ltd Cork, picketing case.

Dundalk branch, 1961- including:
Letter books, claims books.

Other records:
Dublin Silk Trade Society Minute Books, Register Book, 1860-1920.

Shop Assistants Irish Industrial League Minute Books, list of members, 1901-1903.

Boggan Testimonial Committee Minute Book, subscribers; collectors cards, 1904.

Approved Societies Association of Ireland correspondence from approved societies regarding
affiliation to the Approved Societies Association of Ireland receipt book, 1916-1920.

Commercial Employees Union Cash Book, 1935.

Poplin weavers price list, 1838-1875.

C.J. Kickham Social Club Minute Book, 1919-1932.

AccessThe material in this repository is privately held. Access to the material is limited and at the discretion of the General Secretary. To have your application for access considered please write, giving precise details of your research project, to the General Secretary at the address provided.
Date1860-1969
Century19th, 20th
Keywords
Repository NameMandate Trade Union
AddressO'Lehane House 9 Cavendish Row Dublin 1
EircodeD01 RT96
Telephone(01) 874-6321
Telephone 2(01) 874-6322
Email Addressmandate@mandate.ie
Repository Web Addresshttps://mandate.ie/
latitude53.35331
longitude-6.26183