[580] Of these, some 80,000 were women. Fully four-fifths of all the organised women workers were, at this date, included in the Lancashire textile Trade Unions.

[581]Including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, which contained together about 1285 Trade Unionists.

[582]Included in the above total were 99,650 women in 52 Unions, distributed among the groups as follows:

Engineering and Metal Trades2,850
Building and Furniture Trades300
Mining...
Textile Manufactures80,900
Clothing and Leather Trades8,650
Printing Trades400
Miscellaneous Crafts3,450
Labourers and Transport Workers3,100
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99,650

We may add that the subsequently published Board of Trade statistics for 1892, arranged on a slightly different classification, gave the following totals by industrial groups:

Metal, Engineering and Shipbuilding279,534
Building157,971
Mining and Quarrying315,272
Textile204,022
Clothing83,299
Transport154,947
Other Trades307,313
—————
1,502,358

See Report on Trade Unions for 1901 (Cd. 773).

[583]The Boilermakers claim only to have been established since 1834, but there is evidence of the existence of the Society in 1832. In a few other cases, notably those of the Stonemasons, Plumbers, and Bricklayers, we have been able to carry the history of the organisation further back than has hitherto been suspected.

[584]The equally archaic port Unions of the Sailmakers, dating, like those of the Shipwrights, from the last century, were united in the Federation of Sailmakers of Great Britain and Ireland (established 1890), with 1250 members.

[585]Of these the most important were the Steam-Engine Makers’ Society (established 1824, 6000 members), the Associated Blacksmiths’ Society (a Scottish organisation, established 1857, 2300 members), the United Kingdom Pattern Makers’ Association (established 1872, 2500 members), the National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers (established 1872, 6500 members), the United Journeymen Brassfounders’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland (established 1866, 2500 members), and the United Machine Workers’ Association (established 1844, 2500 members).