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Every member can obtain the associate card and the pass card. By obtaining that associate and pass card, it does allow them to get into the other 2,100 branches in Great Britain itself.
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Each club then is also given a club journal which is printed every month from head office. Head office sends every club one free. They can obtain more if they want them, and inside there’s a lot of information about union policy and that 13 kind of thing.
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When we go on a trip out, we find a nice working men’s club, like in Skegness or somewhere, and one of us signs for everybody, and they allow us in, you know, the women, half a dozen women or so. And if there’s any music or they want a sing-song, we get up and give them 14 a song.
''The English working class have a wonderful talent for organisation. The whole trade union movement testifies to this, so do the excellent working men's clubs, really a sort of glorified co-operative pub and splendidly organised, which are so common in Yorkshire.'' 15 George Orwell speaking about Northern clubs
The CIU logo that is displayed by affiliated clubs
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Balby Ashmount Committee, c.1955
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