Labor Organizations in Austria and Hungary.

The numerical strength of labor organizations in Austria in 1899 is indicated in the following table of figures respecting trade unions and trade clubs or educational associations which possess trade union functions to a certain extent:

The following table of Hungarian labor unions does not include organizations of agricultural laborers, which it is estimated would bring the total membership up to 60,000:

Trade Unionism in Germany.

In the last few years the growth of labor organizations in Germany has been at an extraordinarily swift pace. In 1900 the aggregate membership of the various organizations increased from 864,350 to 995,435, which was a gain of 131,085, or 15.2 per cent. More than two-thirds of the members of labor unions belonged to the Social Democratic Gewerkschaften, as appears in the following table.*

While the Christian unions enjoyed a larger percentage of increase than the Social Democratic unions, much of the former's growth was due simply to the adhesion of certain large organizations previously classified among the independent unions. The real strength of German trade unionism lies in the Social Democratic Gewerkschaften, which tripled their membership between 1893 and 1900 as shown in the following table:

TABLE 2.

GROWTH OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC UNIONS (GEWERKSCHAFTEN), 1891-1900.

*Correspondenzblatt der Generalkommission der Gewerkschaften Deutschlands, No. 34, 26 Aug. 1901, from which all the recent figures for this article were derived.