Many of these have been formed to remedy some pressing grievance, or to secure some definite advance of wage, and in certain cases of skilled factory work where the women have maintained a steady front, as among the match- makers and the confectioners, considerable concessions have been won from employers.

But the small scale and tentative character of most of these organizations do not yet afford any adequate test of what Unionism can achieve.

The workers in a few factories here and there have formed a Union of, at the most, a few hundred workers.

No large women's trade has yet been organized with anything approaching the size and completeness of the stronger men's Unions.

Women Trade Unionists numbered 120,178 in 1901, and of these no less than 89.9 per cent were textile workers, whose Unions are mostly organized by and associated with male Unions.
There are several reasons why the growth of effective organization among women-workers must be slow.