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Sunday |
1 Stanhope Street meeting for
uniting all brewery workers in one union ('trade union ale') |
2 Transport Workers Federation
organises large meeting of Garston dockers |
3 'White Book’ agreement
between shipowners and unions signed, effective immediately |
4 Tugboatmen win wage increase
following last month's strike |
5 1,200 Lancs and Yorks rail
goods porters strike at North Docks depot and picket other stations |
6 Mass meeting of tram workers
at Litherland tram station |
7 Brunswick Dock goods porters
(Cheshire Lines) strike. Pickets stop goods at Lime Street |
8 3,500 now on strike at goods
stations. Carters and shunters refuse to cross picket lines |
9 Engine-drivers refuse to take
imported scabs to North Docks station. Birkenhead goods yards closed |
10 400 troops arrive Seaforth
barracks. Extra police arrive from Leeds and Birmingham |
11 Many shop assistants told
to take a week's holiday.
St John’s Gardens occupied by police |
12 Board of Trade official arrives
Liverpool to consult with Lord Mayor |
13 Bloody Sunday: 80,000-strong
demonstration attacked by police on St George's Plateau |
14 Lockout of all cargo work
on docks. Strike committee declares general transport strike from
next day |
15 Five prison vans attacked.
Soldiers shoot dead Michael Prendergast and John Sutcliffe |
16 Rail union officials go from
Liverpool meeting to London. Strike committee calls out tram workers
from midnight |
17 Rail unions meet at Board
of Trade, reject offer of Royal Commission and call national rail
strike |
18 Rail talks continue. Striking
tram workers parade. Electric lighting in city goes out. No street-cleaning |
19 Rail company owners join
talks. Rail strike settled with reinstatement and Railway Commission |
20 Funeral of Michael Prendergast
(shot on 15th) at Catholic cemetery. 250 Protestants attend |
21 Strike Committee calls for
no return to work until tram workers reinstated |
22 Railwaymen return to work.
Tom Mann tells meeting: "we are on the eve of a complete and
glorious victory." |
23 Rally to support tram workers.
Tom Mann goes to London to call for strike in support |
24 City Council agrees to reinstate
tram workers 'as and when required'. Strike declared over |
25 Shipowners meeting with unions.
Mass meeting in Bootle agrees return to work |
26 General return to work. 180
tram workers reinstated. First troops withdraw |
27 HMS Antrim leaves Mersey,
more troops leave the city |
28 More tram workers reinstated
(not all). Railway Commission opens |
29 Newsboys strike |
30 Magistrates told Riot Act
was read ten times and 4,142 special constables enrolled for strike-breaking |
31 Inquests on Michael Prendergast
and John Sutcliffe (shot by soldiers). Verdict: 'justifiable homicide' |
First
edition of Transport Workers’ paper (8th) |
HMS
Antrim on the Mersey (18th to 27th) |
Also in this month... Strike
Committee issues permits for transport of essential goods
Police insist that the film of Bloody Sunday be edited to remove their
attacks on the crowd (14th)
'Don't Shoot' leaflet of stonemason Fred Bower urges soldiers not
to fire on striking workers |