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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - July 2011
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Move over W G Grace - young striker keeps a straight bat (picture from Bluecoat Press) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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1 Strike Committee meets North End dockers, agrees to include their demands in negotiations | 2 Rally of 5,000 on St George's Plateau hears that the largest rail union supports the strike | 3 Return to work at those shipping companies where union is now recognised | |||
| 4 2,000 Hawarden Bridge steelworkers strike over employment of non-union labour (resolved after a week) | 5 Tugboatmen return to work after four-day strike | 6 Agents try to recruit strike-breakers for London but no one volunteers | 7 200 dockers’ delegates meet at Engineers Hall. Manifesto calls for 'loyalty and solidarity' | 8 | 9 | 10 Coasting ship owners agree to raise minimum wage |
| 11 Tobacco warehousemen win wage increases after five-day strike | 12 Trades Council addressed by Tom Mann who calls for support for transport strike | 13 150 strike at Dock Board's wool warehouse (succeed after one week) | 14 Dockers’ union convenes meeting of cotton porters. Many join the union | 15 | 16 Rally at St George's Plateau. Tom Mann thanks public, press and police for 'the goodwill shown towards us’ | 17 250 girls at Walton rubber
works strike for wage increase (succeed after three days) |
| 18 Shipping companies set up committee to meet with unions | 19 700 Skelmersdale miners strike over employment of non-union labour (one week) | 20 Strike at Dock Board grainhouses in Liverpool and Birkenhead successful | 21 500 tram workers hold grievance meeting. 300 declare ready to join a union | 22 Workers at Fairrie & Co sugar refinery on Vauxhall Road strike and win instant wage increase | 23 | 24 700 men at Silcocks oil mills strike for wage increase (succeed after 2 days) |
| 25 Sexton presents demands at first meeting of shipowners and unions | 26 Workers at MacFie sugar refinery strike for wage increase | 27 International Miners Congress calls for 8-hour day and two weeks paid holiday a year | 28 Strike settled at North Shore flour mills | 29 900 out of 1600 tram workers now belong to a new union | 30 | 31 Second meeting between shipowners and unions appoints sub-committee to draw up agreement |
 Also
in this month...Strike Committee forms a District Council of National Transport Workers Federation (13th) Goods porters at Lancs and Yorks North Docks station demand wage increase and reduced hours. 1000 workers at six oil mills strike for wage increase (31st) |
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