National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
Founded 1921
Predecessor Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees
National Union of Warehouse and General Workers
Date dissolved 1947
Merged into Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Members 274,000 (1946)
Affiliation Labour, TUC, STUC
Office location 122 Wilmslow Road, Manchester
Country United Kingdom

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

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. 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]

General Presidents

1921: John Jagger
1942: Percy Cottrell

References

  1. 1 2 Arthur Ivor Marsh and Victoria Ryan, Historical Directory of Trade Unions, Vol. 5, p.131
  2. "HALLSWORTH, Sir Joseph", Who Was Who
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