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The Ulster Unionist Labour Association was an association of trade unionists founded in 1917, aligned with the Ulster Unionists in Northern Ireland.
The grouping stood candidates as Labour Unionists in the 1918 UK general election, of whom three were elected. Other Labour Unionists won seats at Stormont. The grouping was seen by many as an attempt to show that the Unionists had the interests of the working class at heart. In the 1920s, they blamed increased employment of Roman Catholics in skilled jobs for increased unemployment, and organised to expel them, and also socialists, from industry - especially shipbuilding.
The organisation existed until at least 1974, but gradually declined in importance.
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