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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - January 2011
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Eldon Street, Vauxhall, 1910 (picture from Carl Fletcher) |
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| Also in this month... Liverpool Printing Trades Federation mass meeting demands 48-hour week (7th) Rev Herbert Dunnico says National Service League is a device to introduce conscription (26th) Liverpool Association of Womens' Trade Unions formed |
1 | 2 Hawarden Bridge steelworks re-opens after successful 10-month strike | ||||
| 3 Sydney Street siege in East London sparks nationwide paranoia about anarchists | 4 London newspaper says Liverpool is the most active centre of anarchism in the provinces | 5 | 6 Alleged Liverpool sightings of 'Peter the Painter' (Jewish anarchist Sidney Street suspect) | 7 2,500 boiler-scalers strike for wage increase and reduced hours. Police prevent picketing | 8 | 9 Striking scalers picket Allan Line and Langton Dock |
| 10 | 11 Employers of scalers offer 10% wage increase and arbitration, which scalers refuse | 12 Carters' union membership in Birkenhead increased as wage increase granted | 13 Board of Trade official arrives Liverpool to mediate in scalers strike | 14 | 15 | 16 Reported that seamen’s strike likely to disrupt the King's Coronation in June |
| 17 | 18 | 19 Boiler-scalers’ strike settled with wage increase and no victimisation | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 Shop Assistants Union soiree at Kings Cafe to boost women’s membership | 26 Liverpool shopkeepers will give staff 60 hour week and a half day off | 27 Meeting of Anti-Vivisection Society at Adelphi |
28 Liverpool Anti-Sweating League hold Annual Meeting at Common Hall | 29 | 30 |
| 31 James Sexton says Ruskin College (of which he is now a governor) will produce future labour leadership |  |
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