TRADE UNIONIST SOLDIERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 7

TRADE UNIONIST SOLDIERS

250,000 ENLIST. For the first time, says the "Daily Citizen," a detailed analysis of tho number of trade unionists who have enlisted is given, and the figures tell a wjonderful story. The total (and even then the roturns from some of the uiiions _are incomplete) is 'no fewer than 225,470, and of these tbe miners contributed 109,860, the railway men 45,000, tho postmen 10,000, and the gas workers and general labourers nearly 15,000. The figures for the various unions are as follow:— , i Members I'rade Union. Enlisted. Beamors, Twisters, etc 500 Blast Furnacemen 1,060 Boot and Shoe Operatives ....'.. 2,960 Builders' Labourers, N.A 1,000 Bookbinders and M. Rulers ... 500 Bleachers, Dyers, etc. 1,500 Card and Blowing R. Oper."... 400 Coach Makers. 1,000 Clerks 500 Gas Workers and Genoral Labourers 14,495 Ironfounders 1,400 National Amal. U. of Lab 4,500 Machine "Workers 650 Plasterers 250 Postmen's Fed 10,000 Railway Men, National Union 45,000 Shipwrights, etc 1,000 Shop Assistants 8,000 Steel Smelters 2,700 Stevedores 700 Teachers -4,500 Typographical Association .... 1,200 Tool Makers 550 Vehicle Workers 6,000 Watermen, Lightermen, etc.... 250 Workers' Union 4,000 [In addition to the above there must be added many tens of thousands from the Transport Trade Unions.! Ayrshire Miners .1 1 1,700 Bristol Miners 150 Cannock Chase Miners 700 Clackmannanshire Miners 250 Cloveland Miners 900 Cumberland Miners 1,100 Derbyshire Miners 3,700 Durham Miners 30,000 Forest of Dean Miners 450 Lanarkshire Miners 7,000 Lancashire and Cheshire Miners 4,000 Leicestershire Miners 550 Mfd. and East Lothian Miners 2,000 Northumberland Miners 10,000 North Staffordshire Miners ... 3,500 North Wales Miners 3,000 Nottingham. Miners 3,500' Old Bill (Staffs) Miners 360 Stirlingshire Miners 1,000 South Derbyshire Miners 400 South Wales Miners 20,000 .West Lothian Miners 600 Yorkshire Miners 15,000