Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union

They appointed Joseph Fogerty of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers as a full-time organiser, and he was able to reverse the decline; by 1915, it had more than 500 members.

The following year, it was a founder constituent of the United Garment Workers' Trade Union, but it retained significant autonomy, and became independent once more in 1921.

[1] In 1936, the union was involved in a dispute at J. Meek and Co, in Manchester, and unhappiness about its handling of it led to the whole executive being replaced.

This did not affect union membership, which reached a peak of 3,100 in 1947, with about three-quarters of members being women.

The following year, it voted to amalgamate with the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.