National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers

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

National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
Founded1 January 1921
PredecessorAmalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees
National Union of Warehouse and General Workers
Date dissolved1 January 1947
Merged intoUnion of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Members274,000 (1946)
AffiliationLabour, TUC, STUC
Office location122 Wilmslow Road, Manchester
CountryUnited Kingdom

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-electionWesthoughtonRhys Davies14,87658.41
1922 general electionShipleyWilliam Mackinder11,16037.22
WesthoughtonRhys Davies14,84655.41[3]
1923 general electionAshton-under-LyneEllen Wilkinson6,20828.73[4]
ShipleyWilliam Mackinder11,91838.41[4]
Spen ValleyTom Myers12,59737.42[4]
StaffordWilliam Thomas Scott8,41246.12[4]
WesthoughtonRhys Davies15,34760.31
1924 general electionJarrowRobert John Wilson18,20357.41[5]
Liverpool WavertreeWilliam Albert Robinson10,38335.02[6]
Manchester BlackleyWilfrid Burke6,19527.53[7]
Middlesbrough EastEllen Wilkinson9,57438.51[5]
ShipleyWilliam Mackinder11,86236.01[5]
Spen ValleyTom Myers13,99943.12
StaffordWilliam Thomas Scott7,57137.92
WesthoughtonRhys Davies16,03355.81[5]
1929 general electionJarrowRobert John Wilson22,75162.51[8]
Liverpool ExchangeWilliam Albert Robinson16,97049.72[8]
Manchester BlackleyWilfrid Burke9,09130.13[8]
Middlesbrough EastEllen Wilkinson12,21541.31[8]
ShipleyWilliam Mackinder18,65442.31[8]
WesthoughtonRhys Davies22,30561.51[8]
1930 by-electionShipleyWilliam Mackinder18,65442.31[9]
1931 general electionJarrowRobert John Wilson18,07145.92[10]
Middlesbrough EastEllen Wilkinson12,08039.62[10]
ShipleyWilliam Albert Robinson14,72534.52[10]
WesthoughtonRhys Davies19,30153.41[10]
1935 general electionBurnleyWilfrid Burke31,16053.61[10]
JarrowEllen Wilkinson20,32453.11[11]
Manchester ClaytonJohn Jagger19,22553.71[11]
RossendaleEvelyn Walkden14,76937.12[11]
St HelensWilliam Albert Robinson29,04453.71[11]
ThornburyF. A. Heron15,16437.52[11]
WesthoughtonRhys Davies21,09360.41[11]
1941 by-electionDoncasterEvelyn WalkdenunopposedN/A1[12]
1945 general electionBurnleyWilfrid Burke32,12263.51[13]
DoncasterEvelyn Walkden40,05070.21[13]
JarrowEllen Wilkinson22,65666.01[13]
LeighHarold Boardman32,44769.81[13]
WansbeckAlfred Robens40,94860.01[13]
WesthoughtonRhys Davies20,99064.91[13]
West RenfrewshireThomas Scollan15,05048.91[13]

Leadership

General secretaries
1921: Joseph Hallsworth

General presidents
1921: John Jagger
1942: Percy Cottrell

References
  1. Marsh, Arthur; Smethurst, John B. (2006). Historical Directory of Trade Unions. 5. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. pp. 131, 212. ISBN 085967990X.
  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. "Trade unions' "parliamentary panels"". Manchester Guardian. 19 September 1923.
  5. Labour Party, Annual Report of the Labour Party Conference (1928), pp.275–281. 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.
  8. Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 24–44. 1929. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "Parliamentary by-elections". Report of the Annual Labour Party Conference: 16–28. 1931.
  10. Annual Report of the Labour Party: 11–27. 1931. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  11. "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. Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248
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