The report of the Executive Committee of the Association of Scientific Workers zive the following details of the growth of the union in the past years
"1963 proved to be a record .cpost-war year so far as recruitment and membership was concerned with 4,980 new members recruited during the year. October 1963 was an all-time record with 666 new members registered in that month."
The report. also give details of how membership has. changed over the \ last three years. Total membership was 12,593 in 1960, 15,045 in 1961, 17,244 in 1962 and 19,098 at the end of 1963. Engineering,. Chemicals and the Universities have provided most of the recruits.