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The '''General Industrial Union of Furniture Makers and Woodworkers''' ({{langx|nl|Algemene Bedrijfsbond voor Meubilerings- en Houtbedrijven}}, ABMH) was a [[trade union]] representing workers involved in making things with wood in the Netherlands.
The union was founded on 1 May 1871, as the '''Dutch Furniture Makers' Union''', under the leadership of Bernardus Heldt.  Later in the year, it was a founding affiliate of the General Dutch Workers' Union, of which Heldt also became the leader.  However, in 1893, it left to join the [[National Labour Secretariat]], and then in 1906 was a founding affiliate of the [[Dutch Confederation of Trade Unions]] (NVV).<ref name="wereld">{{cite web |title=De wereld van 1864 |url=https://www.vakbondshistorie.nl/dossiers/de-wereld-van-1864/ |website=VHV |accessdate=19 October 2020}}</ref>
The union affiliated to the [[International Federation of Woodworkers]] in 1906, in which it thereafter played a prominent role.  In 1908, it absorbed the Dutch Wallpaperers', Upholsterers' and Bedmakers' Union, and renamed itself as the '''General Dutch Union of Furniture Makers, Wallpaperers and Related Workers'''.  Despite this, its membership remained small, at only 2,285 in 1914.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archief Algemene Nederlandse Bond van Meubelmakers, Behangers, Houtbewerkers en aanverwante vakgenoten. Afdeling Den Haag 1885-1913 |url=https://search.iisg.amsterdam/Record/ARCH00160/Export?style=PDF |website=IISG |accessdate=19 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Verre kameraden |url=https://www.solidariteit.nl/nummers/100/Verre_kameraden.html |accessdate=19 October 2020 |work=Solidariteit |date=March 2001}}</ref>
The NVV reorganised its affiliates as [[industrial union]]s in the early 1950s, and in 1952, the union became the ABMH.  By 1969, it had 9,724 members, and on 1 January 1971, it merged with the [[General Dutch Construction Union]] to form the [[General Dutch Union of the Building and Wood Industries]].<ref name="wereld" /><ref name="ebbinghaus">{{cite book |last1=Ebbinghaus |first1=Bernhard |last2=Visser |first2=Jelle |title=Trade Unions in Western Europe Since 1945 |date=2000 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke |isbn=0333771125 |pages=463&ndash;467}}</ref>
==Presidents==
:1871: Bernardus Heldt
:N. Walop
:Freek van de Walle
:1919: [[Kees Woudenberg]]
:1929:
:c.1950: K. van den Berg
:c.1960: H. Scholten
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[[Category:Furniture industry trade unions]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1871]]
[[Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1970]]
[[Category:Trade unions in the Netherlands]]