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{{Short description|Former workers body}}
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The '''Power Loom Tenters' Trade Union of Ireland''' was a [[trade union]] representing workers involved in stretching [[linen]] being manufactured in the [[Belfast]] area of Ireland.
The union was founded in 1877 as the '''Belfast and North of Ireland Power Loom Tenters''' and grew slowly, having only 146 members in 1880, but 452 in 1915, and more than 500 in the 1930s.  It was based at Engineers' Hall on College Street in Belfast, where the [[Flax Roughers' and Yarn Spinners' Trade Union]] and [[Flax Dressers' Trade Union]] also had their headquarters.<ref name="marsh">{{cite book|last1=Marsh|first1=Arthur|last2=Ryan|first2=Victoria|last3=Smethurst|first3=John B.|title=Historical Directory of Trade Unions|volume=4|date=1994|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|location=Farnham|page=285}}</ref>
In 1937, the union merged into the [[Transport and General Workers' Union]].<ref name=Marsh>{{cite book |last1=Marsh |first1=Arthur |last2=Smethurst |first2=John B. |title=Historical Directory of Trade Unions |volume=5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qG5bGb7XIwC |accessdate=13 April 2013 |year=2006 |publisher=[[Ashgate Publishing]] |location=Aldershot |isbn=978-0-85967-990-9 |page=435}}</ref>
==General Secretaries==
:1910s: W. J. McDowell
:H. Kelso
:S. Millar
==See also==
{{Portal|Organized labour}}
* [[Transport and General Workers' Union]]
* [[TGWU amalgamations]]
==References==
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[[Category:Defunct trade unions of Ireland]]
[[Category:Textile and clothing trade unions]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1877]]
[[Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1937]]
[[Category:Transport and General Workers' Union amalgamations]]
[[Category:Trade unions in Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:1877 establishments in Ireland]]
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