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

Founded	1 January 1921
Predecessor	Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees National Union of Warehouse and General Workers
Date dissolved	1 January 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

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.

Election	Constituency	Candidate	Votes	Percentage	Position
1921 by-election	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	14,876	58.4	1
1922 general election	Shipley	William Mackinder	11,160	37.2	2
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	14,846	55.4	1[3]
1923 general election	Ashton-under-Lyne	Ellen Wilkinson	6,208	28.7	3[4]
	Shipley	William Mackinder	11,918	38.4	1[4]
	Spen Valley	Tom Myers	12,597	37.4	2[4]
	Stafford	William Thomas Scott	8,412	46.1	2[4]
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	15,347	60.3	1
1924 general election	Jarrow	Robert John Wilson	18,203	57.4	1[5]
	Liverpool Wavertree	William Albert Robinson	10,383	35.0	2[6]
	Manchester Blackley	Wilfrid Burke	6,195	27.5	3[7]
	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	9,574	38.5	1[5]
	Shipley	William Mackinder	11,862	36.0	1[5]
	Spen Valley	Tom Myers	13,999	43.1	2
	Stafford	William Thomas Scott	7,571	37.9	2
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	16,033	55.8	1[5]
1929 general election	Jarrow	Robert John Wilson	22,751	62.5	1[8]
	Liverpool Exchange	William Albert Robinson	16,970	49.7	2[8]
	Manchester Blackley	Wilfrid Burke	9,091	30.1	3[8]
	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	12,215	41.3	1[8]
	Shipley	William Mackinder	18,654	42.3	1[8]
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	22,305	61.5	1[8]
1930 by-election	Shipley	William Mackinder	18,654	42.3	1[9]
1931 general election	Jarrow	Robert John Wilson	18,071	45.9	2[10]
	Middlesbrough East	Ellen Wilkinson	12,080	39.6	2[10]
	Shipley	William Albert Robinson	14,725	34.5	2[10]
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	19,301	53.4	1[10]
1935 general election	Burnley	Wilfrid Burke	31,160	53.6	1[10]
	Jarrow	Ellen Wilkinson	20,324	53.1	1[11]
	Manchester Clayton	John Jagger	19,225	53.7	1[11]
	Rossendale	Evelyn Walkden	14,769	37.1	2[11]
	St Helens	William Albert Robinson	29,044	53.7	1[11]
	Thornbury	F. A. Heron	15,164	37.5	2[11]
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	21,093	60.4	1[11]
1941 by-election	Doncaster	Evelyn Walkden	unopposed	N/A	1[12]
1945 general election	Burnley	Wilfrid Burke	32,122	63.5	1[13]
	Doncaster	Evelyn Walkden	40,050	70.2	1[13]
	Jarrow	Ellen Wilkinson	22,656	66.0	1[13]
	Leigh	Harold Boardman	32,447	69.8	1[13]
	Wansbeck	Alfred Robens	40,948	60.0	1[13]
	Westhoughton	Rhys Davies	20,990	64.9	1[13]
	West Renfrewshire	Thomas Scollan	15,050	48.9	1[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