Great Unrest: 100 Years Since the First National Railway Strike / Fighting Unions- 1911 & Today

An upcoming event in Manchester to commemorate the centenary of the first National Railway Strike in 1911 and its relevance to the labour movement today. [See leaflet below for further details]

Saturday November 12th 2011
16:00-19:30
People's History Museum, Left Bank,
Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER
Tel 0161 838 9190


Speakers:
Bob Crow (RMT General Secretary)
Alex Gordon (RMT President)
Sam Davies (Professor of History, LJMU)
David Howell (Professor of Politics, York)


Great Unrest: 100 Years since the First National Railway Strike (Leaflet)

1911 and the Liverpool General Transport Strike (North West TUC)

Here we reproduce this excellent introduction to the 1911 transport strike, produced for the North West TUC by Sam Davies (Prof. of History, LJMU) and Ron Noon (retired LJMU). Also included are a number of appendices: a brief chronology of the strike, 'Fred Bower and the Secret Under the Stone', 'Fred Bower and the S.S. Baltic' and 'Casualism on Liverpool Docks'. Many thanks to the authors, who have been resolute in their meticulous work and research on the period.