ABSTRACT
Meanwhile two other large civil service unions were emerging. The Second Division Clerks; Association, with a membership base partly in the Executive grades and the rest in the directing and clerical grades, went through several mergers before assuming the title of the Society of Civil Servants in 1930. Similarly the Association of Government Messengers and Attendants grew from a membership of 27 in 1917 to become the Government Minor and Manipulative Grades Association in 1930. To be re-titled the Civil Service Union in 1944, the membership was even more diverse, covering a wide range of government departments as well as industrial and non industrial grades.
