UNEMPLOYMENT.

No. 72.-ANNUAL PERCENTAGES

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics.) ·

759,000

834,000

922,000

993,000

922,000

939,000

1911

1912

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

1919

950,000

1,117,000

1,334,000

1,603,000

1,235,000

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

1,145,000
1,084,000

978,000

All Unions included in Returns.(a)

121

132

144

156

Yearly average of Percentages Unemployed at the end of each month.

Other Wood-
working and
Furnishing.

3.0

3.2

2.1

3.3

1.1

0.4

0.7

0.8

2.4

2.4

14.8(c)

15'2(c)

11'3(c)

8.1(c)

10.5(c)

155

147

150

154

199

234

235

241

243

UNEMPLOYED among MEMBERS of CERTAIN TRADE UNIONS.

245

246

Engineering,
Shipbuilding
and Metal.

Number

of firms

Number Approx. of Total YEARS practising Schemes(b) Number Profitin of sharing.(a) operation. Employees.

3.4

3.6

2.2

3.3

0.6

0'3

0.2

0.2

3.2

3.2

22.1

27.0

20'6

13'8

13.5

Carpenters and Joiners.

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 ont, sick or superannuated, are excluded from the figures.

222,000

262,000

4.2

3.7

3.3

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

(b) Affected by the general Coal Mining stoppage.

(e) 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.

302,000

316,000

300,000

329,000

346,000

398,000

3.3

2.2

0.9

0'5

0.2

1.2

0.3

3.9

PROFIT-SHARING.

No. 73.-NUMBER of FIRMS with SCHEMES of PROFIT-SHARING (a) in GREAT BRITAIN and NORTHERN IRELAND; NUMBERS of WORKPEOPLE COVERED; and BONUSES PAID.

(Taken from the Eighteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics.)

7.5(d)

5'0(d)

1.9(d)

2.2(d)

Not available,

101,000
107,000

132,000

147,000

143,000

3.3

3.1

2.4

4.1

2.1

1.0

0'6

0.5

1.3

1.4

164,000

177,000
191,000

9.4

7.6

5'8

4.5

4.4

89 98

111

117

99 101

105

107

121

158

177

181

182

183
190

Printing and
Bookbinding.

5'1

5.2

4'0

4.5

3.1

1.3

0.6

0.3

1.6

1.6

7.3

6'6

4.7

3.3

2.8

Schemes for which details are available as to
Bonuses paid or credited.(c)

53,900
59,500
66,700

70,200

72,700

74,800

80,300

Boot

and Shoe Operatives.

Number of Average
Employees amount
entitled to of Bonus
participate. per head.(d)
£ s. d.
(e)

506
560

549

3 18 0

34 3

3 15 2

3 13 9
507

9 18 1

6 14 2

6 6 10

758
8 21

9 13 7

82,500

82,100

111,900

123,700

118,200

124,000

152,800
161,300

3.6

2.1

2.1

1.7

0'1

0.0

0.1

0.1

0.6

2.9

7.1

4.5

5.3

4.2

4.7

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

(d) Schemes under which no bonus was paid are included. (e) Not available.

Percentage
addition of
Bonus to
Earnings.(d)

%

5'5

5'9

5'9

6'7

5'3

4'6 5'3

5'1

4.9

6'4

3'6

3'9

5'1

4'9 5'3

(a) The statistics are exclusive of profit-sharing arrangements in co-operative societies, particulars not being available for the whole period 1911-25. In 1925, 125 societies, with 23,000 employees, were known to have profit-sharing schemes in operation. Returns from 112 of these societies showed that the bonuses paid to employees in 1925 averaged £4 188, 8d. per head, or 4'1 per cent on earnings.

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

TRADE UNIONS.

No. 74.-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 59,000 in 1925.

(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 1925 are provisional.

(c) The figures for the years 1920 to 1924 have been amended in accordance with the latest information available.

TRADE UNIONS-GREAT BRITAIN.

No. 75.-NUMBER, INCOME, EXPENDITURE and FUNDS

489

Members
at end of
Year.

From
Members.

3

2,321,142 3,220,415

2,546,681 3,458,178

3,205,240 4,090,736

3,199,346 4,307,327

3,388,769 4,300,058

3,649,009 4,511,507

4,360,782 5,127,324

5,259,410 6,175,700

6,516,436 8,488,940

Income.

From allowances by Minister of Labour (Unemployment Insurance).

£

102,303

168,986

121,630

21,850

5,453,815 11,314,400 7,831,797

From other sources.

4,505,941 8,865,344 5,448,721

3

4,368,877 7,985,377 2,649,364

425,214

4,458,147 8,236,190 2,069,737

365,749

52,665 634,866

4,447,652 7,993,705 3,113,677

322,489

90,633 801,201

353,765

343,963 291,233

398,856 116,541

507,143 446,441 703,895

267,417

881,400 660,871 675,116

91,235

Sickness and Accident Benefit.

£

506,236

136,983

512,038

33,497 1,037,341 967,259 2,131,864 687,769

89,887 552,943

6,928,666 11,195,755 312,024 1,364,511 1,717,761 3,218,622 747,120

585,941

1,918,472 15,149,636 3,426,696

535,136

282,569 295,195 665,215

978,233

986,691 8,359,447 1,427,885 906,971

632,558 3,733,365 721,115 780,062

916,793 3,139,055 1,187,791 818,598

727,315 4,520,724 332,836 788,617

(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 93 in 1925) are excluded.

Funeral
Benefit.

of REGISTERED TRADE UNIONS (a) in GREAT BRITAIN.

Registrar of Friendly Societies.)

3

128,297

137,156

148,901

161,972

200,862

228,711

264,600

367,541

304,029

294,910

320,941

316,109

284,412

306,922

317,393

TRADE UNIONS-GREAT BRITAIN.

114,064

Payments
to Fed-
erations,
grants
to other
Societies,
&c.

3

234,042

165,954

185,304 1,680,249

Manage

ment and other Expenses.

193,612 1,178,859 6,446,071 6,969,093

488,715

397,755

£

£
£
736,552 5,841,517 6,294,456

Funds.

911,944 6,301,375 5,589,492

352,379

At

beginning
of Year.

2,120,947

At end of Year.

6,958,286

1,582,116 10,547,041 12,712,499

668,187 3,232,103

8,552,211

8,555,980 10,472,120

4,275,434 15,822,275

715,694 4,401,089 15,753,696 10,814,903

3,752,514 10,886,127 9,861,317

3,224,588 9,778,791 10,752,213

YEARS.

10,763,932 11,434,414

1911

3,198,251 11,387,265 12,545,348

1912

12,694,254 14,948,094 1918

3,035,504 14,944,540 15,956,195 1919

15,860,804

1913

1914

1915

1916

1917

1920

1921

1922

1923

1924

1925

STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS.

No. 76.-NUMBER of DISPUTES REPORTED as involving STOPPAGES WORKPEOPLE INVOLVED, and aggregate DURATION in

NOTE.-In this and the following Table disputes involving less than ten workpeople, and those which lasted less than one day, have been omitted, except when the aggregate duration exceeded 100 working days.