Nerve 17 - 1911 Transport Strike Calendar

1911 Transport Strike Calendar - November 2011

X marks the spot - John Sutcliffe was shot dead here by soldiers on 15 August (picture from Bluecoat Press)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
	1 Council elections: Labour gain 6 seats in Liverpool, 2 in Birkenhead	2	3 Tom Mann leaves Liverpool	4 Rail unions decide to ballot membership by 4 December on Commission report and possible strike action	5 Liverpool Railway Joint Strike Committee rejects Railway Commission report	6 LNWR makes concessions to carters over hours of work
7 Christabel Pankhurst says suffragettes will act against Manhood Suffrage Bill	8 City council meeting. enlivened by Labour group (now 7 strong)	9	10 Lancs and Yorks rail announce wage increases for lower-paid	11 Star theatre re-opens as Liverpool Playhouse, staging The Admirable Crichton (J M Barrie)	12	13 Trades Council notes that 40 tram workers are still not reinstated
14 Trades Council calls on Labour Party to campaign for full voting rights for all men and women	15	16 Trades Council delegate wins by-election, becomes Birkenhead's 5th Labour councillor	17	18 Rail unions win all 42 seats on the new Lancs and Yorks rail conciliation board	19	20 Liverpool branch of General Railway Workers Union rejects Railway Commission report
21 Liverpool women march in big London suffragette demo where 223 arrested	22 Women’s suffrage rally in Sun Hall	23 Carters and scavengers demand union rates of pay from City Council	24	25 70 electricians strike at Cammell Lairds	26	27 Playhouse theatre stages 'Justice' (J Galsworthy) - 'fascinating and yet terribly depressing'
28	29 Liverpool suffragette Patricia Woodlock jailed 21 days for damage on London march (21st)	30	The funeral of Michael Prendergast, shot by soldiers on 15 August
Liverpool Playhouse opens(11th)			Also in this month... Suffragette play 'Outlawed' performed at Royal Court Rail companies announce several wage increases to head off more strikes 300-400 men and women of Jewish Tailors Union strike (3 weeks)

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