INDUSTRIAL PEACE OR CLASS WAR? 77 
No. of Income from Management 
Members. Members. Expenses. 
Commerce and Finance: ’ 4 
1922 215,159 337777 225,423 
1923 208,964 302,652 207,792 
Public Administration: 
1922 102,513 110,367 71,276 
1923 98,570 107,286 67,903 
Building, Decorating, etc.: 
1922 388,360 1,031,366 370,819 
1923 - 355,061 900,862 319,926 
These are official figures, taken from the pre- 
liminary Report of the Chief Registrar of Friendly 
Societies for 1923. The very first group shown— 
the group of fishermen’s Trade Unions—actually 
spent in 1922, on expenses of management, £5,155 
out of £6,176 received from the members. In 
1923 the figures are a little better, but still expenses 
of management totalled £4,244 of a total of £6,110 
received from the workers. 
The Agricultural Group is even worse. In 1922 
the expenses of management alone were actually 
in excess of the whole of the income from the 
members! Where was the money to come from 
for benefits? It is incredible that executives could 
be guilty of such criminal folly. But again the 
result is apparent. There was an immediate drop 
in membership—from 90,643 in 1922 to 79,707 
in 1923. Yet the remaining 79,707 were made 
to pay more than the 90,643 contributed in 1922. 
The year’s income was £38,549, the expenses of