Note 7 — Chapter IX
Reading edition
There are about 650,000 members in those unions that pay out-of-work benefits. The following table gives some conception of the magnitude of the out-of-work problem in England. It shows the sums expended by the unions for out-of-work relief:
Year Amount
1898 £234,000
1899 185,000
1900 261,000
1901 325,000
1902 429,000
1903 516,000
1904 655,000
1905 523,000
1906 424,000
1907 466,000
Out of a body of 15,000,000 workmen, Chiozza Money estimates that 500,000 are always out of work. Opus cit., p. 122.