title: Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
text: # Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers
  
  The Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers (AUBTW) was a British trade union.
  
  ## History
  
  The AUBTW was founded in 1921 when the Operative Society of Masons, Quarrymen and Allied Trades of England and Wales, the Operative Bricklayers' Society and the Manchester Unity of Operative Bricklayers' Society merged. It was joined by the Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland in 1942, the National Builders' Labourers' and Constructional Workers' Society in 1952, the National Society of Street Masons, Paviors and Road Makers in 1966 and the Amalgamated Slaters', Tilers' and Roofing Operatives' Society in 1969.
  
  In 1971, the AUBTW merged with the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers to form the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Painters and Builders.
  
  ## Election results
  
  The union sponsored Labour Party candidates in several Parliamentary elections.
  
  | Election | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Position |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1931 by-election | Woolwich East | George Hicks | 16,200 | 56.7 | 1 |
  | 1931 general election | Woolwich East | George Hicks | 16,658 | 50.9 | 1 |
  | 1935 general election | Woolwich East | George Hicks | 17,563 | 58.0 | 1 |
  | 1945 general election | Woolwich East | George Hicks | 18,983 | 70.4 | 1 |
  | 1950 general election | Portsmouth South | Leslie Merrion | 17,545 | 36.1 | 2 |
  | 1951 general election | Southend East | Leslie Merrion | 19,478 | 44.7 | 2 |
  | 1955 general election | Exeter | Leslie Merrion | 18,759 | 43.7 | 2 |
  | 1964 general election | Houghton-le-Spring | Thomas Urwin | 32,914 | 74.8 | 1 |
  | 1966 general election | Houghton-le-Spring | Thomas Urwin | 32,067 | 77.5 | 1 |
  | 1970 general election | Houghton-le-Spring | Thomas Urwin | 32,888 | 73.4 | 1 |
  
  ## Leadership
  
  ### General Secretaries
  
      1921: George Hicks
      1941: Luke Fawcett
      1951: George Lowthian
  
  ### Presidents
  
      1921: George Waddell
      1934: Luke Fawcett
      1942: Harry Adams
      1953: Harry Weaver
  