National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

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National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
Predecessor Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees
National Union of Warehouse and General Workers
Merged into Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Founded1 January 1921
Dissolved1 January 1947
Headquarters122 Wilmslow Road, Manchester
Location
  • United Kingdom
Members
274,000 (1946)
Affiliations Labour, TUC, STUC

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.

ElectionConstituencyCandidateVotesPercentagePosition
1921 by-election Westhoughton Rhys Davies 14,87658.41
1922 general election Shipley William Mackinder 11,16037.22
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 14,84655.41 [3]
1923 general election Ashton-under-Lyne Ellen Wilkinson 6,20828.73 [4]
Shipley William Mackinder 11,91838.41 [4]
Spen Valley Tom Myers 12,59737.42 [4]
Stafford William Thomas Scott8,41246.12 [4]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 15,34760.31
1924 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 18,20357.41 [5]
Liverpool Wavertree William Albert Robinson 10,38335.02 [6]
Manchester Blackley Wilfrid Burke 6,19527.53 [7]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 9,57438.51 [5]
Shipley William Mackinder 11,86236.01 [5]
Spen Valley Tom Myers 13,99943.12
Stafford William Thomas Scott7,57137.92
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 16,03355.81 [5]
1929 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 22,75162.51 [8]
Liverpool Exchange William Albert Robinson 16,97049.72 [8]
Manchester Blackley Wilfrid Burke 9,09130.13 [8]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,21541.31 [8]
Shipley William Mackinder 18,65442.31 [8]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 22,30561.51 [8]
1930 by-election Shipley William Mackinder 18,65442.31 [9]
1931 general election Jarrow Robert John Wilson 18,07145.92 [10]
Middlesbrough East Ellen Wilkinson 12,08039.62 [10]
Shipley William Albert Robinson 14,72534.52 [10]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 19,30153.41 [10]
1935 general election Burnley Wilfrid Burke 31,16053.61 [10]
Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 20,32453.11 [11]
Manchester Clayton John Jagger 19,22553.71 [11]
Rossendale Evelyn Walkden 14,76937.12 [11]
St Helens William Albert Robinson 29,04453.71 [11]
Thornbury F. A. Heron15,16437.52 [11]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 21,09360.41 [11]
1941 by-election Doncaster Evelyn Walkden unopposedN/A1 [12]
1945 general election Burnley Wilfrid Burke 32,12263.51 [13]
Doncaster Evelyn Walkden 40,05070.21 [13]
Jarrow Ellen Wilkinson 22,65666.01 [13]
Leigh Harold Boardman 32,44769.81 [13]
Wansbeck Alfred Robens 40,94860.01 [13]
Westhoughton Rhys Davies 20,99064.91 [13]
West Renfrewshire Thomas Scollan 15,05048.91 [13]

Leadership

General secretaries

1921: Joseph Hallsworth

General presidents

1921: John Jagger
1942: Percy Cottrell

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References

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  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. 1 2 3 4 "Trade unions' "parliamentary panels"". Manchester Guardian. 19 September 1923.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Labour Party, Annual Report of the Labour Party Conference (1928), pp.275281. 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.
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  9. "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 16–28. 1931.
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  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248