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Trade Union Militancy (Transport Strike 1911 (EVENTS (Tom Mann led 250,000…
Trade Union Militancy
Transport Strike 1911
EVENTS
Tom Mann led 250,000 dockers, railway workers and sailors on strike for improved conditions.
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Troops and HMS Antrim in the Mersey, 3,500 troops stationed in Liverpool
CONSEQUENCES
Hussars killed two people, docker shot in the chest, two people shot in Llanelli.
Ended on 24th Aug, mobilised 50,000 troops but gov. struggled to move them as trains weren't moving
CAUSES
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Decade before 1911, real wages fell by 10%
Landlords subdivided properties, increased rental charges, increased tenant sub-letting rooms.
Glasgow Rent Strike 1915
EVENTS
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The SGWHA led 25,000 tenants on a full-scale strike in May 1915
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CAUSES
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11% of Glasgow's housing stock was vacant, leading to landlords renting out overcrowding and dilapidated flats
Population increased by 65,000 but housing units increased by 1,500
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Forty Strike 1919
EVENTS
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30th Jan 1919 - 40,000 workers in engineering / shipbuilding industries went on strike.
Electricity supply workers striked in sympathy, and 36,000 coalfield miners also. Large-scale deployment of flying pickets
31st Jan 1919 - 60,000 demonstrators in George's Square, police violently retaliated.
Protestors fought back with iron railings, fists and bottles
CONSEQUENCES
Churchill sent 10,000 soldiers, with machine guns, tanks and a howitzer. Largest deployment of troops on native soil
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In 1922 GE, Scotland elected 29 Labour MPs, including 40 Hour Strikers and ILP members, Manny Shinwell and David Kirkwood
CAUSES
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Unemployed servicemen needed jobs, lower hours per worker, more workers needed to reach same levels
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Wartime cooperation
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Mass unemployment is inevitable, 4m soldiers, and jobs made by war
1918 - Size of the electorate tripled, and cooperation between the TUC and gov. led to a fall in confidence