National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
PredecessorAmalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees
National Union of Warehouse and General Workers
Merged intoUnion of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Founded1 January 1921
Dissolved1 January 1947
Headquarters122 Wilmslow Road, Manchester
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members274,000 (1946)
AffiliationsLabour, TUC, STUC

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

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.

Election Constituency Candidate Votes Percentage Position
1921 by-election Westhoughton Rhys Davies 14,876 58.4 1
1922 general election Shipley William Mackinder 11,160 37.2 2
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 14,846 55.4 1[3]
1923 general election Ashton-under-Lyne Ellen Wilkinson 6,208 28.7 3[4]
Shipley William Mackinder 11,918 38.4 1[4]
Spen Valley Tom Myers 12,597 37.4 2[4]
Stafford William Thomas Scott 8,412 46.1 2[4]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 15,347 60.3 1
1924 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 18,203 57.4 1[5]
Liverpool Wavertree William Albert Robinson 10,383 35.0 2[6]
Manchester Blackley Wilfrid Burke 6,195 27.5 3[7]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 9,574 38.5 1[5]
Shipley William Mackinder 11,862 36.0 1[5]
Spen Valley Tom Myers 13,999 43.1 2
Stafford William Thomas Scott 7,571 37.9 2
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 16,033 55.8 1[5]
1929 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 22,751 62.5 1[8]
Liverpool Exchange William Albert Robinson 16,970 49.7 2[8]
Manchester Blackley Wilfrid Burke 9,091 30.1 3[8]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,215 41.3 1[8]
Shipley William Mackinder 18,654 42.3 1[8]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 22,305 61.5 1[8]
1930 by-election Shipley William Mackinder 18,654 42.3 1[9]
1931 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 18,071 45.9 2[10]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,080 39.6 2[10]
Shipley William Albert Robinson 14,725 34.5 2[10]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 19,301 53.4 1[10]
1935 general election Burnley Wilfrid Burke 31,160 53.6 1[10]
Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 20,324 53.1 1[11]
Manchester Clayton John Jagger 19,225 53.7 1[11]
Rossendale Evelyn Walkden 14,769 37.1 2[11]
St Helens William Albert Robinson 29,044 53.7 1[11]
Thornbury F. A. Heron 15,164 37.5 2[11]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 21,093 60.4 1[11]
1941 by-election Doncaster Evelyn Walkden unopposed N/A 1[12]
1945 general election Burnley Wilfrid Burke 32,122 63.5 1[13]
Doncaster Evelyn Walkden 40,050 70.2 1[13]
Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 22,656 66.0 1[13]
Leigh Harold Boardman 32,447 69.8 1[13]
Wansbeck Alfred Robens 40,948 60.0 1[13]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 20,990 64.9 1[13]
West Renfrewshire Thomas Scollan 15,050 48.9 1[13]

Leadership

General secretaries

1921: Joseph Hallsworth

General presidents

1921: John Jagger
1942: Percy Cottrell

References

  1. ^ a b Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. Vol. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 131, 212. ISBN 085967990X.
  2. ^ "HALLSWORTH, Sir Joseph", Who Was Who
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ a b c d "Trade unions' "parliamentary panels"". Manchester Guardian. 19 September 1923.
  5. ^ a b c d 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.
  6. ^ Parker, James (2017). Trade unions and the political culture of the Labour Party, 1931-1940 (PDF). Exeter: University of Exeter.
  7. ^ "Manchester ready for election". Manchester Guardian. 11 September 1924.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 24–44. 1929. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 16–28. 1931.
  10. ^ a b c d e Annual Report of the Labour Party: 11–27. 1931. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. ^ a b c d e f "List of Endorsed Labour Candidates and Election Results, November 14, 1935". Annual Report of the Labour Party: 8–23. 1935.
  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. ^ a b c d e f g Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248