Trade Unions: Board of Trade (Labour Department). Report on Trade Unions ... with Comparative Statistics ... |
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100 principal unions accounts are analysed affiliated Amalgd Amount per Member Association Beamers Belfast Birmingham Blowing Room Operatives Boot and Shoe BRANCHES at end Brass Founders Building Trades Card and Blowing cent Cotton Cradley Heath Cutters Dispute Benefit Dissolved 1904 District Builders District Power Loom Dublin Employees ence Engineers Expenditure Farriers Female Members French Polishers Funds at end Funeral Benefit Glasgow Grand Total gration Benefits GROUPS OF TRADES House Painters Income Iron italics Labourers Machinists Males Females Manchester MEMBERSHIP at end Metal Miners Mining and Quarrying National Amalgamated Nottingham Number Number of Trade Operative Bricklayers Plate Workers Power Loom Overlookers Regis Scotland Scottish Sheffield ship at end Shipbuilding Sick and Super Tailors Tape Sizers tered tered Unions Textile TITLE OF TRADE Trade Feder TRADE UNION Trade Unionists represented Trades Council trict Twisters Twisters and Drawers Unem unemployed benefit Unions in 1904 Unions whose accounts United Kingdom Unregis Walsall Warpers Winders
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Page xl - TRADES COUNCILS. Trades councils have no power to direct the action of the unions represented, or to levy funds in aid of those on strike or for other purposes. They frequently, however, take under consideration the cause or object of a trade dispute, and, if satisfied, grant credentials empowering funds to be collected under their name and authority. They also issue appeals to the unions for aid to those engaged in disputes, and distribute the funds collected. Occasionally they make small grants...
Page 171 - Report on wholesale and retail prices in the United Kingdom in 1902, with comparative statistical tables for a series of years.
Page 169 - LABOUR GAZETTE"— the Journal of the Labour Department of the Board of Trade — published on the 15th of each month. May be ordered through any newsagent, price Id., or obtained direct from the Publishers, Messrs. Horace Marshall & Son, Temple House, Temple Avenue, London, EG, at the rate of 2s.
Page xxxix - XXXV trades council because it possesses certain powers of direction over its affiliated societies or branches, and is not merely consultative in character. Federations, however, vary so much in objects and constitution that they are difficult of classification, and it is not always easy in practice to maintain the above distinctions rigidly. Some federations possess most of the powers of a trade union organised for trade purposes only ; others are organised for the regulation of the mutual relations...
Page xv - During the ten years under review, i6,o6o,ooo/. has been spent by the 100 Principal Unions. Of this amount about...
Page xxxviii - Federations are organised for certain specific purposes with limited and defined powers over the constituent societies, such powers varying very much according...
Page 167 - This Conference was called, primarily, to consider the question of lock-outs and the action of Trade Unions with regard thereto. Out of this Conference sprang the Alliance of Organised Trades.
Page xxv - ... 1901 1,855,072 206,429 2,061,501 The total income of the 100 unions for each of the last ten years is shown under groups of trades in the following table : — It will be seen that the building trades show a steady increase of income throughout the period, which may be accounted for by the fact that these trades have suffered least from fluctuations of employment or great disputes. The greatest total and...
Page lxi - Including grants to members, grants from one union to another, payments to federations, trades councils, congresses, etc.
Page xiv - ... membership of trade unions, especially in the less skilled industries, tends to expand most rapidly in years of improving trade, while in periods of diminishing employment there is usually a check to the rate of increase, or even an actual decline. As in previous reports, financial details are given as to 100 principal unions only. These unions, however, include over 60 per cent, of the total membership of the whole.