The monthly report of the United Society of Boiler Makers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders contains, as well as internal union business, reports of meetings; obituaries; warnings about named individuals falling into arrears, or becoming ‘out of benefit’; members ‘run out’; subscription sales; new members admitted; second class transferred to first class membership; apprentices admitted; apprentices transferred to adult membership; and ‘unapproved’ apprentices. Members are normally identified by surname and initial, with membership number as appropriate. These abbreviations also occur: 1st, first class; 2nd, second class; 3rd, third class; A.I.S., angle iron smith; App., apprentice; A.W., acetylene worker; C., caulker; D., driller; H-up, holder-up; P., plater; R., riveter; S.I.W., sheet iron worker. January 1921
18-20 fenton laird
47 mcgowan mckay
51 bain
52 heeney heaney glass
53-56 dick houston nelson peat morrow carchrie porteus sime buchanan blair leavey mcnab dowall elliott rodney hopkins howie farren bryce brennan o’rorke falconer kerr hamil lurkington cameron watt smith
61-62 kennedy kane strachan mcintyre fielding tierney maguire gilham kane mcglinn boyle kelly
65 wood
66 wood dick houston nelson crachrie porteus leavey bryce
67 dick houston nelson crachrie porteus leavey bryce
70-71 montgomery luman thomson