Flint Glass Makers' Sick and Friendly Society
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Flint Glass Makers' Sick and Friendly Society
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The Flint Glass Makers' Sick and Friendly Society, often known as the Flint Glass Makers' Friendly Society (FGMFS) was a trade union in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1844 as the United Flint Glass Makers Society. This union was bankrupted by an unsuccessful strike at the Five Ways Flint Glass Works in 1848, and it was therefore reorganised as the FGMFS at a meeting in Manchester the following year. Initially, it included members from Lancashire, Yorkshire, the West Midlands, Edinb
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Former trade union of the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_Glass_Makers%27_Sick_and_Friendly_Society
date created:
2013-05-07T10:05:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T23:20:35Z
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