ABSTRACT
The Trade Union movement had become identified in their minds also with wage labour, and though the general conditions covering their remuneration were similar to those covering that of manual workers, from the nature of the work and through contact with people Although there were one or two organisations catering for non-manual workers in existence before 1914, the general growth of Trade Unionism amongst such workers has been a war and post-war phenomenon. In the years immediately after the war, when there was considerable ferment in the field of non-manual work, it was felt that the Trades Union Congress was giving too little attention to the problem. Many of the banks, like insurance companies, are large organisations where considerable aggregations of men and women take place, although the number of men employed is being affected by mechanisation in book-keeping.
