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Strikers crossing London Bridge (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • br@mbly said:
    Note the distinctive Trade Union banners. Also there is a band playing on the left of the picture.
  • Steven Pemberton said:
    Most likely the General Strike of 1926, since another picture in this series is dated May 1926.
  • swanq said:
    The first banner is for the Stepney branch of the "London Carmen." They were one of the primary unions involved in the August 1911 dock strike. According to 'A Summary Description of the Papers of National Union of Vehicle Workers' at www.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/ead/126vwcol.htm 'The National Union of Vehicle Workers was formed as the London Carmen's Trade Union in 1888. By 1892 the union's membership had declined from an initial figure of 6,000 to 2,000. The membership of the union rose again in the period 1895-1910. The London Carmen's Trade Union originally represented carters of East End traffic to and from docks and warehouses. The union had a tradition of collaboration with other unions and in 1911 delegates were sent to the first General Council meeting of the National Transport Workers' Federation. The General Secretary of the union, Sam March, sat on the Executive Council of the National Transport Workers' Federation. The London Carmen's Trade Union was strongly influenced by syndicalism and its members were prominent in the 1911 strikes in London. The failure of the 1912 London transport workers' strikes however resulted in a significant loss of membership from 8,000 members in the union to half that number in 1913. In the same year the union changed its name to the National Union of Vehicle Workers (NUVW) . The NUVW was one of the founding members of the Transport and General Workers' Union and played a significant role in bringing road haulage workers into the new union.' The TGWU was formed in 1922. So I think THIS picture is more likely to be from 1911 than 1926.
  • Yersinia pestis said:
    Agreed. To the right of the bridge, there now stands a much larger building, Adelaide House, built in 1924-5.
  • Mando Maniac said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ANYTHING GOES ENGLAND,VINTAGE PHOTOS,POSTCARDS,EPHEMERAetc..., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Photograph taken in Liberty Hall the night Countess Markievicz was released from prison May (?) 1919,

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • John Spooner said:
    Is May correct? She was released from Holloway prison on Friday 15th March and arrived in Dublin the following day and made a speech from the windows of Liberty Hall (according to press reports).
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Merry Christmas NLI Marys and everyone - thanks for all the flickroonie fun this year! No idea who these people are, but the Countess Markievicz seems to have been one huge character - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    John Spooner I suspect that the question mark behind May in the title was to seek clarification on that point John. If it was her release from prison in March then what, if anything, was happening in May or was this March???
  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • John Spooner said:
    beachcomber australia If further evidence of her forceful character were needed (and it isn't) this is how she summed up her treatment in Holloway Prison
    Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 20 March 1919(Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 20 March 1919)

National Seamens and Firemans Union, Waterford

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Carol Maddock said:
    Beautiful banner! Wonder if it still survives...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Not the steps of the Imperial hotel...

    It's the courthouse in Waterford:
    Wedding at Waterford Courthouse

    Streetview does not get very close.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Sheerness was a cargo ship, and was wrecked at the Tuskar Rock in 1927.
  • guliolopez said:
    These men worked hard for their pay. I'd imagine more than a few of those pictured had an opinion (and probably input) into the general strike we spoke about late last week. Seemingly the NS&FU joined in the 1890s with other Waterford-based union branches to reduce the working-day to 10 hours, and gain an extra few shillings a week for the dock workers also. As with Carol Maddock, I'd love to think the banner survives. Might need the OFarl to contribute on that.... www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/31575454304/ EDIT: Connolly and Larkin and the ITGWU (representing the dock workers) seemingly did not always have a good relationship with Havelock Wilson and the NS&FU (representing the ship workers). Not helped I guess that Wilson's union was UK-based, and that an action by either group would (if not coordinated) affect the workers of the other union. It looks like members of the Dublin NS&FU branch joined the 1913 lockout however - even if the ITGWU seemingly covered their strike pay rather than the NS&FU itself....
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Crew of the Sheerness in 1915.