In the Federation, the Union's money mainly came from two sources.
One was social donations. For instance, the capitalists at the port who wanted to maintain a close cooperative relationship with the Union knew the trick to good relations and retention lay in donations.
But this situation was not absolute; there always were some businesses that felt unbound by common rules or didn't think they needed to donate, arguing that they had provided jobs and had done what they should for society.
Not every business donated every month, and the capitalists of the Federation refused extortionate forced donations, but on average, the annual donations to the Union amounted to about eighteen hundred to two thousand yuan per month when averaged out.
The second source of income was the membership dues paid by the workers, considering the income of dock workers was not high in the industry as a whole. Therefore, the Dock Union had set the membership dues at two percent of the basic monthly wage.
