Nerve 17 - 1911 Transport Strike Calendar

1911 Transport Strike Calendar - June 2011

Strike Committee leader Tom Mann addressed several meetings a day through the summer (picture from Bluecoat Press)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
		1 Transport Workers Federation holds first Annual Conference at Engineers Hall (3 days)	2	3	4 International Seamen’s Strike Committee begins 3-day meeting in London	5 200 Jewish cabinet-makers are locked out over demand for increased wages and job security
6 Coal porters of Southampton strike and hold up the White Star’s Olympic	7	8 Women Clerks Association hold organising meeting in Hardman Hall	9	10 Sailors and firemen resolve not to go and break a strike in Southampton	11 RMS Baltic arrives Liverpool. Crew do not sign on for next voyage, demanding wage increase	12 Havelock Wilson writes to UK Shipowners Association with last-minute plea to avoid strike
13 Tom Mann arrives in Liverpool to lead the seamen’s strike with poster "War Declared: We Strike for Liberty"	14 Seamen’s strike begins as 500 seamen refuse to sign on. Mass meetings in Liverpool and London	15 Several big shipping firms concede wage increases	16 Strike leaders turn attention to smaller firms. Dockers are also in state of unrest	17 250 women take special train from Liverpool to join 40,000-strong women’s 5-mile 'Coronation' suffrage march	18 Carters meeting at St Martin's Hall expresses support for seamen	19 Stewards on four ships join the strike of sailors and firemen
20 Seamen and stewards agree wage increase and union recognition with Cunard, White Star and Allan Lines	21 Report that the strike has spread to Dublin and Hull. CPR Line concedes strikers' demands	22 Coronation of King George V. Docks all quiet	23 50 dockers strike at Bramley Moore dock in support of seamen and firemen (successful after two days)	24 Elder Dempster charter depot ship Friesland for 3 weeks to supply non-union labour	25 4,000 rally at St George's. All Shipping Federation seamen are called out. Dockers and carters support	26 Dockers refuse to work on ships where owners have not conceded. Carters do the same
27 90 tailors and tailoresses strike (successfully) at Joseph Davies', Russell Street. Girls plan to form a union	28 Dockers present their own demands for union recognition. 2,000 coalheavers also strike	29 Dockers defy Strike Committee advice and insist on recognition and payment of union rates	30 George Milligan (secretary of North End NUDL) joins Strike Committee as dockers stay out	Banner of North End dockers (NUDL No 12 Branch)
Also in this month... Cabinetmakers locked out over demand to end piecework system (10th) Dockers refuse to unload Pointer (from Glasgow) until striking crew reinstated (18th) Black sailors and firemen join crew of Elder Dempster ship Aro on strike (19th)

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