Unions Have Wore Money, Less Members

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The report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies for 1963 . discloses that the funds of registered trade unions of employees incereaased £5.34m. to £106.2m last year, representing £12 9s 2d. per member, compared with £11 16s 5d at the end of 1962. There was 2 net fall of 8,000 in the total membership of employee unions during 1963 compared with a fall of 13,000 in the previous year, Out of a total membership of 8,524,000 at end 1963, the number of women increased by 37,000 to 1,494,000. Income from members of all unions increased byt -1lm during 1963, Expenditure on : unemployment benefits was up £155,000 at £464,000, a rise of 50.3 % over the 1962 figure, Dispute benefit (mainly strike pay) fell by £234,000 to £462,000 (33.07%). Dispute benefit paid in 1962, however, was swollen by two one-day strikes in the engineering industry. The number of employee trade unionists contributing to politi¢al funds in 1963 was 6,439,000, an average contribution per member of 2s 7d. The expenditure out of the political funds of these unions increased during the year by £485,000 to £l.la, and their political funds fell from £1.7m to £1.5m.