thenewway

March 3, 1918

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 14 older comments, and then…
• Richard said:

  many moustaches! -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  joe crowley Obviously the rebel of the bunch!

• joe crowley said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons ...or he got banished to the back row! haha

• John Spooner said:

  From this article For their impact on the character of trade unionism, the most important state interventions were those on the railway and in agriculture. Under severe rank and file pressure, the London-based National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) sanctioned a national strike in Ireland in December 1916. As private interests would not meet the pay demand, the government stepped in to keep the war effort running smoothly, took control of Ireland's thirty two railway companies, and awarded a substantial war bonus. Over the next nine months the NUR's Irish affiliation rocketed from 5,000 to 17,000 members. It was a victory for the rank and file over the union’s London executive, as well as for the union over the railway companies. In 1917 NUR men launched the monthly journal New Way and developed the most articulate rank and file movement in Ireland during these years. The same article mentions James 'Big Jim' Larkin (and his hat and droopy moustache), but according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Larkin he was in the USA between 1914 and 1923.

• blackpoolbeach said:

  British Library, Colindale Newspaper Library "The New Way" Dublin 1917, Irish Railway Review The organ of railway workers and railway users in Ireland. Microfilm: Oct.1917 explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt...