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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - October 2011
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Reinstating the sacked 250 tram workers was a major issue through the autumn (picture from Bluecoat Press) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Also in this month... Prof Benjamin Moore disputes medical officer's view that the strike increased city's death rate. Star Theatre on Williamson Square will open as Liverpool Playhouse next month. Council workers protest at Health committee delay in dealing with August pay demands (20th) |
1 Shop Assistants Union conference calls for longer breaks in working day | 2 Meeting at YMCA in support of trade unionism among women workers | ||||
| 3 Tom Mann addresses Tailors Trade Union at Daulby Hall, denounces sweating system | 4 City cllr Austin Harford says Birmingham police behaved like 'bashi-bazouks' on Bloody Sunday | 5 James Sexton letter defends his description in Council of police as 'uniformed hooligans' | 6 | 7 Post and telegraph workers’ rally demands wage increase | 8 Garston dockers accept 10 to 25% wage increase from rail company | 9 First meeting of dockers and shipowners under the 'White Book’ agreement |
| 10 | 11 Tom Mann addresses Hardman Hall meeting of National Union of Clerks | 12 | 13 H M Hyndman addresses SDP meeting at Sun Hall, says liberalism is 'the handmaid of the capitalist classes' | 14 | 15 | 16 Ship Stewards union membership has increased from 4,000 to 10,000 |
| 17 J M Labouchere, Labour city auditor, criticises financial running of Council | 18 | 19 Keir Hardie addresses Independent Labour Party rally at Sun Hall | 20 Railway Commission report does not recommend union recognition | 21 | 22 Labour election rally at Liverpool stadium. Dockers union membership up from 9,000 to 33,000 | 23 |
| 24 'Three cheers for solidarity' disrupt Conservative election meeting in Kensington | 25 James Sexton calls for inquiry into police brutality on 13 August | 26 Labour open-air election meeting in Garston | 27 Election meeting of Fred Bower (Labour and Socialist, Dingle) |
28 | 29 Liverpool Railway Joint Strike Committee 'profoundly disappointed' with Railway Commission report | 30 Tom Mann and Sexton address 1,000 at Picton Hall election meeting |
| 31 LNWR announce wage increases. Unions continue to demand recognition |  Arthur
Bulley's Council election leaflet. There was a Con-Lib pact 'to avoid
any public excitement'. Labour contested 19 out of 35 wards |
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