GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, 1910-1925.

Year.

Numbers and Percentages of Workpeople directly involved in Disputes involving Stoppages of Work, the Results of which were

METHODS OF SETTLEMENT OF STRIKES AND LOCK-OUTS

Numbers and Percentages of Disputes involving Stoppages of Work, which were settled by

⚫Settlements effected by legislation (e.g., the Coal Mines (Minimum Wage] Act, 1912), by Statutory undertakings, are included under this heading.

† 15 disputes, directly involving 28,000 workpeople, were not finally settled by June, 1926,

IN GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, 1910-1925.

Numbers and Percentages of Workpeople Directly involved in Disputes involving
Stoppages of Work, which were settled by-

Orders (e.g., under the Munitions of War Acts), or by Government decisions as regards disputes at controlled

Aggregate Duration in Working

192,000 203,000 195,000 391,000 274,000 165,000 126,000 178,000 346,000 451,000 546,000 697,000 529,000 185,000 151,000 248,000 306,000 491,000 377,000 1,107,000 752,000 176,000 114,000 285,000 787,000 833,000 474,000 1,163,000 821,000 268,000 208,000 371,000 472,000 1,048,000 1,203,000 2,059,000 1,056,000 430,000 296,000 564,000 748,000 786,000 304,000 1,609,000| 559,000 102,000 347,000 443,000 9,485,000 6,314,000 35,156,000 3,213,000 5,371,000 1,643,000 1,125,000 3,776,000

12,336,000 10,126,000 38,255,000 10,239,000 9,362,000 2,969,000 2,367,000 5,865,000

The figures in this Table relate exclusively to strikes and lock-outs beginning in the years shown, and the figures subsequent years in cases where the strike or lock-out extended over more than one calendar year. The figures of duration, within each year, of all strikes and lock-outs in progress in that year, whether beginning in that or in an Inclusive of the aggregate duration in January-June, 1926, of seven disputes, involving 13,000 workpeople, See note on page 144.

250-500

245,000 466,000 589,000 245,000 213,000 141,000 322,000 643,000 763,000 353,000 267,000 220,000 423,000 826,000 784,000 393,000 342,000 180,000 378,000 441,000 1,054,000 940,000 439,000 372,000 658,000 617,000 304 000 833,000 1,618,000 1,484,000 937,000 547,000 1,026,000 1,275,000 1,291,000 595,000 1,211,000! 809,000 235,000 344,000 232,000 221,000 879 000 3,033,000 30,512,000 23,489,000 79,667,000 17,567,000 8,492,000 5,430,000 5,749,000 5,892,000 36,330,000 28,858,000 82,269,000 19,652,000 10,949,000 8,361,000 8,920,000

179,000
261,000

179,000 268.000 250 000

Under 100

100 250

500-1,000 1,000-2,500 2,500-5,000 5,000

Total.

as to aggregate duration relate to the total loss in working days of such disputes, including the days lost in aggregate duration shown differ, therefore, from those in the Table on page 144, which gives the aggregate earlier year.

of which the termination had not been reported by the latter date.