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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - February 2011
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Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at work (Artwork by Alan Murray) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 | 2 Special Labour Party conference votes to organise nationally not just in Parliament | 3 Robert Tressell (Noonan), author of 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', dies in Royal Infirmary | 4 | 5 | 6 Ramsay MacDonald elected chairman of Labour Party | |
| 7 Union official warns that London printers' strike may spread across the country | 8 National Union of Women Workers local branch membership up from 273 to 312 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 Labour Representation Committee says new Poor Law order 'will drive many more into the workhouse' |
| 14 James Clarke, black docker, saves a man from drowning in Collingwood Dock | 15 | 16 University students demonstrate: 'Hands off St George's Hall' | 17 Wallasey Carters Union demand wage increase and shorter hours (employers concede on 20th) | 18 Trades Council celebrates its 63rd anniversary | 19 | 20 First repertory theatre season: opens with J Galsworthy's Strife (about strike at a tin-plate works) |
| 21 Wallasey carters threaten strike to force reinstatement of those dismissed following wage settlement | 22 | 23 Long debate in Parliament on 'Akbar Inquiry' report (see article page 30) | 24 | 25 Reported that Women’s Freedom League plans 'census parties' to avoid being counted in the census | 26 Edward Whitley, Labour city councillor (Edge Hill), resigns from ill-health. WR Blair to contest by-election | 27 |
| 28 200 refractory heating boys at Cammell Lairds walk out demanding wage increase |  Union
Buttons (left to right)
Seamen, Stewards, Dockers, Carters, Railworkers |
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 Also
in this month...Board of Trade declines to set up a Conciliation Board for the shipping industry (17th) James Sexton wins libel action over pamphlet accusing him of assisting the prosecution of Jim Larkin (17th/18th) |
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