National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers
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The National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers was a trade union in the [[United Kingdom] established in July 1906 in Norfolk as the Eastern Counties Agricultural Labourers & Small Holders Union.
Its first General Secretary was George Edwards, later Member of Parliament for Norfolk South]] followed by William "Bill" Holmes 1928-1944, who had been President of the union from 1923 - 1928.
Alfred Dann 1945-
The last General Secretary of the National Union of Agricultural & Allied Workers was Jack Boddy 1978-1982
From 1928 - 1967 Edwin George Gooch MP North Norfolk was president of the union
The union changed its name to the National Agricultural Labourers & Rural Workers Union in 1910 and to the National Union of Agricultural Workers in 1920.
The union's strong hold was in Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Dorset with over 90% of agricultural labourers being in membership.
William "Bill" Holmes NUAW General Secretary once told an audience of American trade unionists: "In many of our villages, a man who joins a trade union is worthy of the Victoria Cross that's won on a battlefield. In many villages he dare not be known to be a member of the union. But to be a branch secretary ! That is to risk one's livelihood every day in the week"
The union's journal was "The Landworker"
It became the Agricultural section of the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1982.
