# Sign and Display Trades Union

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{{short description|Former trade union of the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox union
|name         = Sign and Display Trades Union
|location     = [United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom)
|affiliations = [TUC](/source/Trades_Union_Congress), [P&KTF](/source/Printing_and_Kindred_Trades_Federation)
|num_members  = 3,100 (1968)<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress |date=1968 |page=37}}</ref>
|publisher    = 
|full_name    = Sign and Display Trades Union
|native_name  = 
|image        = 
|founded      = 1917
|dissolved    = 1972
|merged_into  = [National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel](/source/National_Society_of_Operative_Printers%2C_Graphical_and_Media_Personnel)
|headquarters = 67 Albert Road, London
|key_people   = 
|website      = 
|footnotes    = 
}}

The '''Sign and Display Trades Union''' ('''SDTU''') was a British [trade union](/source/trade_union) that existed between 1917 and 1972.

Formed in 1917 as the '''National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades''' it represented  workers engaged as a [sign](/source/Commercial_signage), [glass](/source/glass), [poster](/source/poster) or [ticket](/source/Ticket_(admission)) writer, or in any branch of subsidiary and allied trades.<ref name="Warwick_01">[http://dscalm.warwick.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=NaviTree.tcl&dsqField=RefNo&dsqItem=SDT#HERE University of Warwick Archive: SDT] Retrieved December 2010</ref>

The union remained active during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). Between 1939-44, correspondence covered general union matters such as [wage](/source/wage) claims and holiday allowances and a Cinema Poster Trade Joint Agreement was negotiated.

In 1944, the Sign and Display Trades Union signed an agreement of mutual recognition with the [National Association of Theatrical and Kine Employees (NATKE)](/source/National_Association_of_Theatrical_Television_and_Kine_Employees), acknowledging the [demarcation](/source/Demarcation_dispute) between the two unions in the cinema industry.<ref>[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/subject_guides/cinema/ University of Warwick Archive: Cinema]  Retrieved December 2010</ref>

The National Union of Sign, Glass and Ticket Writers and Kindred Trades changed its name to the Sign and Display Trades Union in 1945.<ref name="TUC_archive">[http://www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/292a0086.htm University of Warwick Archive: TUC SDTU records] Retrieved December 2010</ref>

In 1949 two other unions, the [Northern Glass Workers' Employees' Association](/source/Northern_Glass_Workers'_Employees'_Association) and the [National Society of Decorative Glass Workers of the United Kingdom](/source/National_Society_of_Decorative_Glass_Workers_of_the_United_Kingdom), transferred their engagements to the Sign and Display Trades Union.

In 1958 the SDTU was involved in a dispute with Glasgow [neon sign](/source/neon_sign) manufacturers; ''Laird Neon''. [Glasgow University Principal](/source/Principal_of_the_University_of_Glasgow), [Hector Hetherington](/source/Hector_Hetherington), was appointed as arbitrator.<ref>[http://cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=full&recid=gb0248dc008-gb0248dc008-471-538 University of Glasgow Archives] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813124130/http://cheshire.cent.gla.ac.uk/ead/search?operation=full&recid=gb0248dc008-gb0248dc008-471-538 |date=2011-08-13 }} Retrieved December 2010</ref>

In 1972 the union transferred its engagements to the [National Society of Operative Printers, Graphical and Media Personnel](/source/National_Society_of_Operative_Printers%2C_Graphical_and_Media_Personnel).<ref>[http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0802natsopa.html NATSOPA Archive] Retrieved December 2010</ref>  At this point, it had fewer than 500 members.<ref>John Gennard and Peter Bain, ''A History of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades'', p.41. {{ISBN|978-0-203-99238-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-415-13076-9}}</ref>

==General Secretaries==
:1923&ndash;1938: J. G. Copeland
:1937&ndash;1972: A. C. Torode

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://mrc.epexio.com/records/SDT Catalogue of the SDTU archives], held at the [Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick](/source/Modern_Records_Centre%2C_University_of_Warwick)

Category:Trade unions established in 1917
Category:Trade unions disestablished in 1972
Category:Defunct trade unions of the United Kingdom
Category:1917 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Printing trade unions
Category:Trade unions based in London

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