Note 606 — Chapter IX
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The Unions which, along with the A.S.E., ratified the agreement were the Steam Engine Makers’ Society, the United Machine Workers’ Association, the United Kingdom Society of Amalgamated Smiths and Strikers, the Associated Brassfounders and Coppersmiths’ Society, the North of England Brass Turners’ Society, and the London United Metal Turners, Fitters and Finishers, having an aggregate membership of 70,000.
The societies which failed to secure ratification on the members’ vote, in some cases merely by the failure to obtain a sufficiently large poll, were the Amalgamated Toolmakers’ Society, the Electrical Trades Union, the United Brass Founders and Finishers’ Association, the Amalgamated Instrument Makers’ Society, the United Pattern Makers’ Association, the Associated Smiths and Strikers, the National Brassworkers and Metal Mechanics, the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, and the Scale and Beam Makers’ Society, with something like 100,000 members in the aggregate. Probably some of these will take another vote in the near future.
The old-established Friendly Society of Ironfounders (35,000 members) continues quite apart, though joining freely in engineering trade movements. An unusually protracted national strike in 1919, which is likely to end in a compromise, may possibly lead to proposals for closer union.