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APPENDIX III.

1. Merchants' Guilds

No. of Associations.

Nominal Membership.

28

2,700

2. Craft Guilds

28

12,000

3. Labour Unions

84

44,000

4.

District Associations

36

40,000

5.

Can Associations

4

3,000

6.

Clubs

89

7,000

7. Seamen's clubs, lodging

houses and employment

agencies.

31

2,700

300

111,400

2.

5.

6.

NOTES ON APPENDIX III.

Craft Guilds. This title is used to include guilds of which both masters and men are members.

Clan Associations. Societies of persons having the

same surname.

Clubs. These include, besides purely social clubs a number of societies which do not differ essentially from labour unions.