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Volume XXXII]
POLITICAL SCIENCE
QUARTERLY
THE BRITISH LABOR MOVEMENT AND THE WAR
THE labor movement in Britain is organized in three
great federations: the Trade-Union Congress, the Gen-
eral Federation of Trade Unions, and the Labor Party.
The Trade-Union Congress has a membership of close upon
3,000,0oo trade unionists, and concerns itself with all the poli-
tical and industrial questions by which they are affected. The
General Federation of Trade Unions has a membership of
1,076,634. Its functions are mainly financial, and take the
form of providing a proportion of funds in trade disputes.
The Labor Party is a federation of trade unions, trades coun-
cils, local labor parties, socialist societies and co-operative
societies. There were affiliated with the party in 1915, III
trade unions with a membership of 2,053,735, 177 trades coun-
cils and local labor parties, the Independent Labor Party
(socialist), with a membership of 30,000, the Fabian Society
(socialist), with a membership of 2838, the Women's Labor
League, with a membership of 5ooo, and a small co-operative
society. The total membership was 2,093,365. The business
of the Labor Party is, of course, to further by parliamentary
action the interests of the working class in every possible di-
I The sources consulted in the preparation of this article include: Labor in
War-Time, by G. D. H. Cole, (London, G. Bell and Sons); International
Socialism and the War, by A. W. Humphrey, (London, P. S. King and Son);
Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Trade-Union Congress; Report of the
Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Labor Party; Report of the Seventeenth
Annual General Council Meeting of the General Federation of Trade Unions;
The American Federationist, November 1915; The New Statesman, November
13, 20, 27, and December 18, 1915; Fabian News, September 1916; The Call,
July 27, 1916; files of The Labor Leader and Justice; other newspapers.
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March, 19-17
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