Facts and Figures About Labour M.p.s

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Labour Research*is, as usual, quick off the mark to provide the movement with essential and interesting information about the New House of Commons!, Although the whole article is of great value, we think readers of The Week will be especially interested in what it had to say about the new Labour M,P,s and have reproduced the relevant sections: ",eeIn this election Labour gained 49 seats and lost one, the Liberals gained 4 seats and lost 2, the Conservatives lost 51 and gained none, Of the 364 Labour MPs 67 are new and one (Mr. Gordon Walker) missed the last parliament, The new men are, so far as jobs go at least, markedly different from the 1964 crope In 1964, 25 out of 83 (30%) were manual workers or technicians, which helped to reverse the trend a little, This time only 7 come from into this category and the biggest influx is of university lectureres (15, or 22% of the new MPs), Among the whole of the Labour MPs there are 41 trade union officials (including 8 miners! officials) and 4 Labour and co-op officials. Among industrial workers the big battalions are still only three: 17 miners, 16 engineers and 14 railwaymen (of whom telf are clerks). But there are also 3 draughtsmen, 4 Post Office workers, 2 printers and one carpenter, constructional engineer, vehicle examiner, chainworker and master engraver. There are 4 clerks, 4 insurance officials and one bank clerk. "Among the non-manual too the big battalions stay the same, though — _~ propytions have changed. There are now 30 university lecturers, 28 barristers, 16 solicitors, 29 jounalists, authors and broadcasters, 26 teachers, 9 lecturers from the WEA, étc., 8 doctors, 10 other professional men (scientists, qualified engineers, accountants), 16 company executives of various kinds (including personnel officers, reps. PROs), 5 executives of other organisations, 4 university administrators, 4 from the civil serivee or local government, 4 managers, 3 supervisors, 13 with their own business (including 5 consultants), 6 company directors, 4 economists, 2 BBC producers, one actor, 2 farmers, 2 regular forces, 6 housewives and 4 professional politicians. "the number of trade wiion sponsored candidates was one more than last time but they had a good deal more success: 13 more were elected, Altogether the unions have at least 276 members in the House (this includes some duplication." The article then gives a table of the number from various unions, We have extracted the mucber elected and the number of sponsored elected (the latter in brackets):