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To such Trade Union workers as are openly or 
covertly disposed towards revolutionary policies, or 
even such as still believe in the efficacy of the strike 
and lockout method of industrial adjustment, the 
facts and figures of this chapter are presented much 
more as a warning than an accusation. 
The outstanding feature of the situation is 
expressed in the growth of the administrative 
charges which are the inevitable concomitant of 
excessive officialism, and the outstanding feature 
of that officialism is its general incapacity. After 
all there should be some relation between growth 
of numerical strength and financial stability, and 
the amount of funds expended in organisation and 
administration. Taken from the Chief Registrars 
Report, here is the case simply stated: 
British Registered Trade Unions 
Expenses of 
Members. Management. Funds. 
1918 5,250,000  £2,100,000  £12,650,000 
1923 4,368,877  £3,224,588 [9,778,791 
The above table tells its own story of the de- 
creased membership and vanishing funds of the 
British Trade Unions. 
Since the end of 1923 there has been little 
increase in numbers of the rank and file of the 
unions and as little decrease in the officialism. It 
is rather sad to observe, too, that the growth of 
the official staffs is apparently in inverse ratio to 
the fall in the finances. But it is abundantly clear 
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