Note 618 — Chapter IX
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The other railwaymen’s Unions are the Belfast and Dublin Locomotive Engine-drivers’ and Firemen’s Trade Union, founded in 1872, and still existing (1920) with a few hundred members; the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, founded in 1880, a powerful sectional society with 33,000 members, which long maintained a jealous rivalry with the Amalgamated; the Railway Clerks’ Association, founded in 1897, remaining very small for a whole decade, absorbing in 1911 the Railway Telegraph Clerks’ Association, founded 1897, with 85,000 members; the Irish Railway Workers’ Trade Union, founded in 1910, tiny and insignificant; the National Union of Railway Clerks, formed in 1913, a tiny local body, arising out of the suspension of the Sheffield Branch of the Railway Clerks’ Association, temporary only.
We may mention the Scottish Society of Railway Servants, founded in the eighteen-eighties, merged in the Amalgamated Society in 1892; the United Signalmen and Pointsmen, founded in 1880, merged in the N.U.R. in 1913; the General Railway Workers’ Union, founded in 1889, merged in the N.U.R., 1913.
For the development of Trade Unionism in the railway world, and the various controversies, we have drawn mainly on the numerous reports and other publications of the Unions themselves; the Railway Review and the Railway Clerk(the pleading for the Companies being found in the Railway News, subsequently incorporated in the Railway Gazette); Trade Unionism on the Railways, its History and Problems, by G. D. H. Cole and R. Page Arnot (1917); the Souvenir History, published by the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (1910); Men and Rails, by Rowland Kenney (1913); Der Arbeitskampf der englischen Eisenbahner im Jahre 1911, by C. Leubuscher, 1913; the various publications on the legal proceedings, for which see the next chapter; the Reports of the Board of Trade on Railway Accidents, hours of labour, etc., of the Select Committee of 1892, and the Special Committee of Inquiry of 1911; An Introduction to Trade Unionism, by G. D. H. Cole (1918); From Engine-cleaner to Privy Councillor[J. H. Thomas], by J. F. Moir Bussy (1917).