National_Union_of_Distributive_and_Allied_Workers

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

Former trade union of the United Kingdom

The National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers (NUDAW) was a trade union in the United Kingdom.

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History

The union was founded in 1921 when the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees merged with the National Union of Warehouse and General Workers. The Co-operative Insurance Staff Union split in 1922, but several small unions joined during the 1920s, and membership reached 96,000 by 1926, rising to 274,000 in 1946, the year that the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Great Britain joined. By this point, four-tenths of its members were women.[1]

In 1947, NUDAW merged with the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.[1] Joseph Hallsworth was General Secretary of the union for its entire existence.[2]

Election results

The union stood a large number of Labour Party candidates, many of whom won election.

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Leadership

General secretaries

1921: Joseph Hallsworth

General presidents

1921: John Jagger
1942: Percy Cottrell

References

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    Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 131, 212. ISBN 085967990X.
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    "HALLSWORTH, Sir Joseph", Who Was Who
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    Labour Party, Report of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.255-272. Note that this list is of the sanctioned candidates as of June 1922, and there were some changes between this date and the general election.
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    "Trade unions' "parliamentary panels"". Manchester Guardian. 19 September 1923.
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    Labour Party, Annual Report of the Labour Party Conference (1928), pp.275–281. Note that this is a list of affiliations of Labour MPs as of September 1928, and it is possible that some MPs held different sponsorship as of the 1924 election.
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    Parker, James (2017). Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 (PDF). Exeter: University of Exeter.
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    "Manchester ready for election". Manchester Guardian. 11 September 1924.
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    Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 24–44. 1929. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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    "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 16–28. 1931.
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    Annual Report of the Labour Party: 11–27. 1931. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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    "List of Endorsed Labour Candidates and Election Results, November 14, 1935". Annual Report of the Labour Party: 8–23. 1935.
  12. [12]
    Labour Party, Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference (1945). Affiliations are those as of mid-1945; it is possible that some MPs may have had different sponsors at the time of their election.
  13. [13]
    Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248
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