ABSTRACT
WOMEN’S WOOD WORKERS UNION A society formed by the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Council on 1 May 1916 with 44 members at a factory at Newton Heath area of Manchester. By the end of 1917 the membership had tripled and the union had branches at Newton Heath; Manchester; Bolton; Swinton and Weaste, Salford. At the end of the First World War in 1918 they amalgamated with the Manchester, Salford and Bolton Wood Packing Case Makers Society to become its Women’s Section.
