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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - March 2011
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Casual labour: South End dockers wait for a day's work. Many wear the union badge or 'button' |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 300 boy rivet-beaters at Cammell Lairds strike (one day) | 2 Print unions and employers agree to reduce working week to 51 hours | 3 | 4 300 Wallasey carters strike. Picket of Kings Theatre in Seacombe | 5 21st anniversary of 'the great dock strike' (1890) | 6 Striking Wallasey carters rally at Seacombe, clash with police. Mayor offers to mediate | |
| 7 Navvies building the new Gladstone dock strike for wage increase, form Strike Committee next day | 8 9 Wallasey carters taken to court for 'quitting employment'. Strike ends that evening and case dropped | 9 200 platers helpers at Tranmere Bay strike for wage parity with other regions | 10 20 women workers at Mayfield Sugar Works, Falkner Street, strike for wages to be doubled | 11 | 12 | 13 |
| 14 | 15 Brussels paper reports International Federation of Seamen plans international strike action | 16 100 West African seamen strike as Elder Dempster only pay them half the wages of white seamen | 17 | 18 Suffragette protester greets Secretary for War (Haldane) at Lime Street with 'Votes for Women' placard | 19 50,000-strong United Irish League rally at Hippodrome | 20 Southport painters threaten strike action from 1 April if conditions not improved |
| 21 West African seamen refuse partial settlement of pay claim, many are returned to Africa next day | 22 Trades Council informed that unskilled workers are doing skilled work on the Liver Building | 23 Meeting of sailors, firemen, dockers at St Martin's Hall welcomes striking African seamen | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 Bonar Law wins Bootle Parliamentary by-election for Tories. One vote is cast by a woman |
| 28 Suffragette meeting at Hardman Hall highlights injustice of 'the census and no vote' | 29 Parcel delivery drivers strike and win reinstatement of their boy assistants who demand higher wages | 30 Sandon Studios Society holds debate on post-impressionist art | 31 | |||
 Also
in this month...Sandon Studios Society hold modern art exhibition at Bluecoat (4th till end of month) Navvies strike settled with demands partially met. All have joined Navvies Union (10th) Suffragette magazine Votes for Women discusses plans to defy the census (30th) |
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