Peterborough Trade Union Council was formed in October 1898. According to Tom Browning, in his unpublished history of PTUC, the formal decision was taken at a meeting attended by representatives of the “Amalgamated Society of Engineers; Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners; Operative Society of Bricklayers; Boilermakers; Basket Makers; Coachbuilders and the three local contingents of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants”.
This was a time when the working class was growing in confidence and demanding to have its own, independent voice heard. In 1899, the Trade Union Council began standing Labour candidates in council elections. This, of course, was before the national Labour Party was formed and should serve to remind anyone who doubts it that it was the trade union movement that created the Labour Party as its political voice.
In 1918, Peterborough Trade Union Council formed Peterborough Labour Party.
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