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Membership of Trade Unions in Various Countries, 1911–1923.
(In thousands)
Country 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923[1]
Argentina 68 248[2] 60 120
Australia 365 433 498 523 528 546 564 582 628 684 703 750 700
Austria 200 257 253 147 112 109 211 295 772 985 1,178 1,177 1,117
Belgium 189 231 203 203 450 750 920 920 781 745
Bulgaria 30 36 44 54 100
Canada 133 160 176 166 143 160 205 249 378 374 313 292 255
China 300 500 300
Czechoslovakia 100 107 107 55 40 24 43 161 657 1,650 1,562 1,383 1,505
Denmark 128 139 154 156 173 189 224 316 360 362 323 314 303
Finland 20 24 28 31 30 42 161 21 41 59 49 49 48
France 1,029 1,064 1,027 1,026  … 1,500 2,000 2,500 1,788 1,047 1,396 1,496
Germany 3,336 3,566 3,572 2,271 1,524 1,496 1,937 3,801 9,000 13,000 12,625 11,264 9,193
Great Britain 2,970 3,226 4,192 4,199 4,417 4,677 5,547 6,645 8,024 8,493 6,793 5,580 5,405
Greece …  170
Hungary 95 102 107 107 43 55 215 500 500 343 266 203 191
India 500 500 500 300
Italy 847 861 972 962 806 701 740 1,800 3,100 2,200 3,443 2,235
Japan 111 126
Latvia 50 26 24
Luxemburg 26 13
Mexico 1,056 656 800
Netherlands 169 189 220 227 251 304 369 456 625 664 649 550 545
New Zealand 56 61 71 74 68 71 100 96 98 83 80
Norway 53 61 64 68 78 81 94 180 144 154 98 96 90
Peru 25 25
Poland 947 1,343 1,253 770
Portugal 150 150 50
Rumania 6 10 17 16 16 170 106 82 78
Russia 5,222 8,400 4,838 4,536
South Africa 5 133 108 60[3] 35
Spain 80 190 128 121 76 99 90 150 211 373 311 310 453
Sweden 111 120 136 141 151 189 244 302 339 390 362 325 400
Switzerland 78 86 89 50 65 89 149 177 224 312 267 234 299
United States 2,282 2,539 2,722 2,672 2,860 3,000 3,451 4,000 5,607 4,924 3,907[4] 3,600
Yugoslavia[5] 8 5 9 14 12 12 12 15 20 47 72 81 60
Total 12.255 13,351 14,763 13,222 11,394[6] 11,860[6] 15,772[6] 20,290[6] 32,680 46,114 46,138 39,951 36,017

United States Monthly Labor Review, May, 1921; International Labor Review, February-March, 1923; Twelfth Annual Report on Labor Organization in Canada, 1922; Second Statistical Year Book of the International Federation of Trade Unions, 1924; Industrial and Labor Information, 1922–25; and Proceedings of Congresses.

  1. Third Year Book of the International Federation of Trade Unions, 1925, page 234a.
  2. 1921 figure for Argentina includes 153,000 in an Anarcho-Syndicalist federation and 20,000 in a Catholic organization not listed in 1920.
  3. White workers only.
  4. American Federation of Labor only.
  5. Figures up to 1919 for pre-war Serbia.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Total not reliable because of incomplete reporting during war and changes of boundaries.