BRITISH TRADE UNIONS
DEFECTION OF WORKERS FROM MOVEMENT. A GRAVE PROBLEM. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 1, 9.55 p.m.j LONDON, August 31. The Trade Union Congress week will be confronted with the grave problem of the defection of workers from the movement. Ten typical unions during 1921 lost 624,000 members, including: Railway clerks, 33 per cent, of the total membership; National Union of Railwaymen, 20 per cent.: locomotive engineers and firemen, 20 per cent.; electrical trades, 25 per cent.; tailors, 33 per cent.; agricultural workers; 33 per cent.; general workers, more than 60 per cent. The balance-sheets disclose extraordinary features. For example, the agricultural workers’ ratio of management expenses to income from members is more than 75 per cent, and the general workers more than 45 per cent. »
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 5
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