Definition of "trades-union" []

• Same as trade-union. See etymology of trade-union. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Every broken strike in recent years, every legally plundered trades-union treasury, every closed shop made into an open shop, has driven the members of the working-class directly hurt over to socialism by hundreds and thousands."
• "The corporation and the trades-union have forgotten that they are the creatures of the state."
• "But another element in the trades-union situation must be reckoned with if trades-unionism is to be saved."