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1937 1937 1930s 12 pages : illustrations DOCTORS have their Trade Unions - You have heard, of course, of the British Medical Association. This is the Doctors' Trade Union. It exists to safeguard their personal and professional interests. Its representatives regularly meet and consult repre...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Trades Union Congress General Council
[1937]
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/8288F0B9-242B-4B43-9CAE-399AB3A4CD31 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/4B925FCE-6FB5-4400-B674-D0C8D36FDD46 |
| Summary: | 1937
1937
1930s
12 pages : illustrations
DOCTORS have their Trade Unions - You have heard, of course, of the British Medical Association. This is the Doctors' Trade Union. It exists to safeguard their personal and professional interests. Its representatives regularly meet and consult representatives of the Trades Union Congress. The Medical Practitioners' Union, composed of 5,000 Doctors, is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. Many other distinguished and important professions have their Trade Unions. Captains of the "crack" ocean liners, for instance, are organised in the Navigators' and Engineer Officers' Union which has over 10,000 members in the Mercantile Marine. Schoolmasters and schoolmistresses have their Trade Union. So have journalists and editors. And world-famous actors and actresses, some of whom you will see on the back page, are keen members of British Equity, a Trade Union which has done much to advance the welfare of those who provide the nation's entertainment. If all these have their Trade Unions, why not nurses? Because, it is sometimes said : "If we join a Trade Union we shall be expected to strike, and we can't leave dying patients without attention." But no one will want you to strike, unless you yourselves decide to do so. The history of Trade Unionism is a history of negotiations, not strikes. 99.9 per cent. of disputes are settled [photograph of doctor] His interests are safeguarded by his Trade Union. What the NURSES do for the NATION - Each year, the Nurses care for 8,000,000 patients, eleven out of twelve of whom make complete recoveries. Nurses are on call, ready for sickness or accidents, in every part of the country, by day or by night. The public is served in General, Institutional, Cottage, Mental, Infectious Diseases, and Maternity Hospitals; and in Clinics, Convalescent Homes and Sanatoria. They visit private homes as Midwives and as Health Visitors; they visit Schools as School Nurses. The public gets the advantage of unremitting attention and technical skill which has meant years of toil and study.
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