National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers
The National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers was a trade union in the United Kingdom.History
The union was founded in 1921, when the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees merged with the National Union of Warehouse and General Workers. The Co-operative Insurance Staff union split in 1922, but several small unions joined during the 1920s, and membership reached 96,000 by 1926, rising to 274,000 in 1946, the year that the Journeymen Butchers' Federation of Great Britain joined. By this point, four-tenths of its members were women..
In 1947, NUDAW merged with the National Amalgamated Union of Shop Assistants, to form the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers. Joseph Hallsworth was General Secretary of the union for its entire existence.The union stood a large number of Labour Party candidates, many of whom won election.
| Election | Constituency | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Position |
| 1921 by-election | Westhoughton | | 14,876 | 58.4 | 1 |
| 1922 general election | Shipley | | 11,160 | 37.2 | 2 |
| 1922 general election | Westhoughton | | 14,846 | 55.4 | 1 |
| 1923 general election | Ashton-under-Lyne | | 6,208 | 28.7 | 3 |
| 1923 general election | Shipley | | 11,918 | 38.4 | 1 |
| 1923 general election | Spen Valley | | 12,597 | 37.4 | 2 |
| 1923 general election | Stafford | | 8,412 | 46.1 | 2 |
| 1923 general election | Westhoughton | | 15,347 | 60.3 | 1 |
| 1924 general election | Jarrow | | 18,203 | 57.4 | 1 |
| 1924 general election | Liverpool Wavertree | | 10,383 | 35.0 | 2 |
| 1924 general election | Manchester Blackley | | 6,195 | 27.5 | 3 |
| 1924 general election | Middlesbrough East | | 9,574 | 38.5 | 1 |
| 1924 general election | Shipley | | 11,862 | 36.0 | 1 |
| 1924 general election | Spen Valley | | 13,999 | 43.1 | 2 |
| 1924 general election | Stafford | | 7,571 | 37.9 | 2 |
| 1924 general election | Westhoughton | | 16,033 | 55.8 | 1 |
| 1929 general election | Jarrow | | 22,751 | 62.5 | 1 |
| 1929 general election | Liverpool Exchange | | 16,970 | 49.7 | 2 |
| 1929 general election | Manchester Blackley | | 9,091 | 30.1 | 3 |
| 1929 general election | Middlesbrough East | | 12,215 | 41.3 | 1 |
| 1929 general election | Shipley | | 18,654 | 42.3 | 1 |
| 1929 general election | Westhoughton | | 22,305 | 61.5 | 1 |
| 1930 by-election | Shipley | | 18,654 | 42.3 | 1 |
| 1931 general election | Jarrow | | 18,071 | 45.9 | 2 |
| 1931 general election | Middlesbrough East | | 12,080 | 39.6 | 2 |
| 1931 general election | Shipley | | 14,725 | 34.5 | 2 |
| 1931 general election | Westhoughton | | 19,301 | 53.4 | 1 |
| 1935 general election | Burnley | | 31,160 | 53.6 | 1 |
| 1935 general election | Jarrow | | 20,324 | 53.1 | 1 |
| 1935 general election | Manchester Clayton | | 19,225 | 53.7 | 1 |
| 1935 general election | Rossendale | | 14,769 | 37.1 | 2 |
| 1935 general election | St Helens | | 29,044 | 53.7 | 1 |
| 1935 general election | Thornbury | | 15,164 | 37.5 | 2 |
| 1935 general election | Westhoughton | | 21,093 | 60.4 | 1 |
| 1941 by-election | Doncaster | | unopposed | N/A | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Burnley | | 32,122 | 63.5 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Doncaster | | 40,050 | 70.2 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Jarrow | | 22,656 | 66.0 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Leigh | | 32,447 | 69.8 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Wansbeck | | 40,948 | 60.0 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | Westhoughton | | 20,990 | 64.9 | 1 |
| 1945 general election | West Renfrewshire | | 15,050 | 48.9 | 1 |
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