UNEMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE.

No. 71.- RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS of the UNEMPLOYMENT FUND from 8th November, 1920, to 4th July, 1926.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics and the Ministry of Labour Gazette.)

(a) Contributions of Service Departments (Admiralty. War Office, and Air Ministry).

(b) Compensation for the abolition of refunds at the age of 60.

(c) The apportioned shares of the debt attributable to Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State are excluded from these figures as from the respective dates of severance, viz., 31st December, 1921, and 31st March, 1922.

EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES.

No. 72.-REGISTRATIONS at EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGES, VACANCIES NOTIFIED and VACANCIES FILLED.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics and the Ministry of Labour Gazette.)

NOTE.-The figures in this table for the years 1912-25 include Post Office Christmas workers, but do not include casual workers such as dock labourers and coal porters. The figures for 1926 include casual workers but exclyde Post Office Christmas Workers. In 1925 the number of persons for whom temporary Post Office work at Christmas was obtained through Employment Exchanges was 38,260.

(a) Excluding Irish Free State.

(3) For a period of four weeks at the end of 1925 the figures do not include registrations of persons "Temporarily stopped."

UNEMPLOYMENT.

No. 73.-ANNUAL PERCENTAGES UNEMPLOYED among MEMBERS of CERTAIN TRADE UNIONS.

YEARS

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics and
the Ministry of Labour Gazette.)

NOTE. The particulars are based solely on Returns furnished direct to the Ministry of Labour by various Trade Unions which pay unemployed benefit to their members. Persons on strike or locked out, sick or superannuated, are excluded from the figures.

(a) Including a number of Unions not specified in the five following columns.

(b) Affected by the general Coal Mining stoppage.

(c) The figures from 1921 onwards exclude pottery trade operatives. From July, 1924, onwards building trade operatives are also excluded from the general average. (d) The figures for 1922 onwards are averages of the percentages unemployed at the end of each quarter.

PROFIT-SHARING.

No. 74.-NUMBER of FIRMS with SCHEMES of PROFIT-SHARING (a) in GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND; NUMBERS of WORKPEOPLE COVERED; and BONUSES PAID.

(Taken mainly from the Ministry of Labour Gazette for June, 1927.)

NOTE. The figures shown for 1912-25 differ in a number of cases from those published in the previous issue of this Abstract, owing to the inclusion of a number of schemes which came to the notice of the Ministry of Labour after the publication of the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics, from which the previous figures were extracted.

(a) The statistics are exclusive of profit-sharing arrangements in co-operative societies, particulars not being available for the whole period 1912-26. In 1926, 150 societies, with 26,000 employees, were known to have profit-sharing schemes in operation. Returns from 146 of these societies showed that the bonuses paid to employees in 1926 averaged £4 17s. 2d. per head, or 4'1 per cent on earnings.

(b) Some firms have more than one scheme in operation.

(c) For a number of schemes information as to bonuses is not available.

(1) Schemes under which no bonus was paid are included.

TRADE UNIONS.

No. 75.-NUMBER and TOTAL MEMBERSHIP of TRADE UNIONS in GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics and the Ministry of Labour Gazette)(c).

NOTES. The figures include the total membership of all Unions with head offices in Great Britain or Northern Ireland.

The statistics relate to all organisations of employees-including those of salaried and professional workers, as well as those of manual wage earners-which are known to include among their functions that of negotiating with employers with the object of regulating the conditions of employment of their members. The figures of membership include members in the Irish Free State and other overseas branches numbering approximately 58,000 in 1926.

(a) The subdivision of the total membership into male and female is not exact, as estimates have been made for some Trade Unions which are unable to state precisely the numbers of males and females comprised within their membership.

(b) The figures given for 1926 are provisional.

(c) The figures for the years 1920 to 1925 have been amended in accordance with the latest information available.

TRADE UNIONS-GREAT BRITAIN.

No. 76.-NUMBER, INCOME, EXPENDITURE and FUNDS

(a) The statistics relate only to Trade Unions of employees registered by the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies under the Trade Union Acts, 1871-1917. Employers' Associations registered as Trade Unions (of which there were 92 in 1926) are excluded.