The National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers (NUDAW) was a trade union in the 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.
In 1947, NUDAW merged with the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Joseph Hallsworth was General Secretary of the union for its entire existence."HALLSWORTH, Sir Joseph", Who Was Who
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 14,876 58.4 1 1922 general election Shipley 11,160 37.2 2 Westhoughton 14,846 55.4 1Labour 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. 1923 general election Ashton-under-Lyne 6,208 28.7 3 Shipley 11,918 38.4 1 Spen Valley 12,597 37.4 2 Stafford 8,412 46.1 2 Westhoughton 15,347 60.3 1 1924 general election Jarrow 18,203 57.4 1Labour 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. Liverpool Wavertree 10,383 35.0 2 Manchester Blackley 6,195 27.5 3 Middlesbrough East 9,574 38.5 1 Shipley 11,862 36.0 1 Spen Valley 13,999 43.1 2 Stafford 7,571 37.9 2 Westhoughton 16,033 55.8 1 1929 general election Jarrow 22,751 62.5 1 Liverpool Exchange 16,970 49.7 2 Manchester Blackley 9,091 30.1 3 Middlesbrough East 12,215 41.3 1 Shipley 18,654 42.3 1 Westhoughton 22,305 61.5 1 1930 by-election Shipley 18,654 42.3 1 1931 general election Jarrow 18,071 45.9 2 Middlesbrough East 12,080 39.6 2 Shipley 14,725 34.5 2 Westhoughton 19,301 53.4 1 1935 general election Burnley 31,160 53.6 1 Jarrow 20,324 53.1 1 Manchester Clayton 19,225 53.7 1 Rossendale 14,769 37.1 2 St Helens 29,044 53.7 1 Thornbury 15,164 37.5 2 Westhoughton 21,093 60.4 1 1941 by-election Doncaster unopposed N/A 1Labour 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. 1945 general election Burnley 32,122 63.5 1Labour Party, Report of the Forty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Labour Party, pp.232-248 Doncaster 40,050 70.2 1 Jarrow 22,656 66.0 1 Leigh 32,447 69.8 1 Wansbeck 40,948 60.0 1 Westhoughton 20,990 64.9 1 West Renfrewshire 15,050 48.9 1
Leadership General secretaries 1921: Joseph Hallsworth
General presidents 1921: John Jagger 1942: Percy Cottrell
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