UNIONS IN BRITAIN
GREAT INCREASE SHOWN IN MEMBERSHIP. (British Official Wireles..) RUGBY, April 25. The Trades Union Congress will celebrate its seventieth anniversary this year, and the general secretary reviews its history in a booklet just published. When in 1868 the first Congress was held in Manchester there were 34 delegates, representing a total membership of 118,367. At Norwich last year 623 delegates represented 214 affiliated unions, with a total membership of 4.008.647, an increase of 394,196 over the figures of the previous year. The congress anticipated that at the time of the meeting at Blackpool next September it will be able to show a further considerable increase in membership.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 7
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110UNIONS IN BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1938, Page 7
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