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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - September 2011
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Convoys with police and military escort were a daily sight in August (picture from Bluecoat Press) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
 "They
don't turn to the authorities and ask for convoy which they could
get. Our Strike Committee permit is of greater value" - Tom Mann |
1 First meeting of new Transport Workers Council regards tram dispute as still not settled | 2 | 3 5,000-strong East London rally remembers those 'killed in the interests of capitalism' in Liverpool and Llanelli | 4 Liverpool stations still full of goods awaiting transport | ||
| 5 TUC conference deplores use of military in trade disputes | 6 United Irish League urges Home Office clemency towards those convicted of strike disorders | 7 | 8 TUC salutes 'magnificent efforts' of transport and women workers in recent disputes | 9 | 10 6,000 demonstrate against Tram Committee's failure to reinstate over 130 workers | 11 |
| 12 'Schoolboy strikes' at elementary school | 13 Trades Council urges donations for locked-out tram workers | 14 50-60 Cammell Lairds drillers strike against piecework system | 15 | 16 | 17 Rev H D Roberts at Hope Street church advocates nationalising railways | 18 |
| 19 Lancs and Yorks railway clerical workers meet to protest at low level of wages | 20 | 21 | 22 Transport Workers Council complains that 80 tram workers still not reinstated | 23 Walker Art Gallery autumn exhibition of modern art (till Jan 1912). Strike backlog holds up some exhibits | 24 National League for the Blind rally on St George's Plateau calls for free tram transport for blind | 25 Meeting at St Martin's Hall protests 'odiously savage' police actions on 'Red Riot Sunday' (13 Aug) |
| 26 Teachers picket a Liverpool hotel for holding interviews to replace striking teachers on Isle of Man | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||
 Also
in this month...Anti-Sweating League organises 500 shop workers into union First statutory meeting of Liverpool Repertory Theatre company (25th) Railway Commission takes evidence from employers and unions |
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