Scotland an English invasion, played a leading role in convincing the Scots elite to back a union with England. On 22 July 1706, the Treaty of Union was agreed between representatives of the Scots Parliament and the Parliament of England. The following year twin Acts of Union were passed by both parliaments to create the united Kingdom of Great Britain with effect from 1 May 1707 with popular opposition and anti-union riots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and elsewhere. With trade tariffs with England now abolished, trade blossomed, especially with Colonial America. The clippers belonging to the Glasgow Tobacco Lords were the fastest
Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland had built up a healthy reserve fund of £18,000. That year, it decided to merge into the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, which already represented stonemasons in England and Wales. Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland The Building and Monumental Workers' Association of Scotland was a trade union representing stonemasons in Scotland. While never a large union, it brought together all the unionised stonemasons in the country. The union was founded in 1919, when the United Operative Masons' Association of Scotland merged with the United Operative Masons' and Granite Cutters' Union, the Associated Paviors' Federal Union, and the