The Trade Union Movement Spartacus Educational Subject Encyclopedias
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The Trade Union Movement
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- Member of the Secular Society; wrote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population.
- Established a trade union weekly newspaper, the Bee-Hive; gave support to trade unionists.
- Educated working class readers about socialism and internationalism.
- Took action against political agitation among industrial workers.
- A paper campaigning for the eight-hour day and denouncing bad employers.
- In response to the announcement of reduction of miner's wages; known as Red Friday.
- Campaigned for universal suffrage; published several books on trade unionism.
- Newspaper attempting to recreate the Labour Party as a truly socialist organization.
- Formed in 1889 to protect gas workers from the power of their employers.
- Held a meeting every year to discuss issues of importance to the labour movement.
- Became chairman of the Public Control Committee and in this post promoted fair wages.
- A radical journal criticizing the government about the Peterloo Massacre.
- Resulted from a dispute over pay and conditions in 1888.
- Paper published arguing that the real struggle was for universal suffrage.
- Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.
- A new radical unstamped journal, which was critical of Lord Liverpool and his government.
- Became one of the first women to enter the House of Commons. She was elected as a labour MP.
- A trade union weekly newspaper established in 1861.
- Became a member of the Women's Trade Union League; wrote several books on the problem of low pay.
- Campaigned for reform of the 1871 Trade Union Act.
- Gave unions the right to divide its subscriptions into a political and a social fund.
- Led a strike at Tilbury Dock; became involved in the London Dock Strike; one of England's leading socialists.
- Narrowly defined the rights of trade unions as meeting to bargain over wages and conditions.
- A socialist weekly established by Robert Blatchford in 1890.
- Campaigned to reduce the working week and an increase the wage in the building industry.
- Important figure in the amalgamation of several unions to form the National Union of Railwaymen.
- President of the Iron & Steel Trades Confederation.
- Six measures attempting to suppress radical newspapers and meetings.
- Developed radical political views; refused to sign the Majority Report; appointed alderman of the new London County Council.
- Made it illegal for workers to join to press their employers for shorter hours or may pay.
- Devoted to improving the organisation of the Independent Labour Party.
- Was opposed to the forming of the Triple Alliance with the miners and railwaymen.
- Helped to establish the National Union of Gasworkers & General Labourers.
- A full-time union official; formed the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pensions.
- Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.
- Led the campaign to have the Minority Report accepted by the new Liberal government.
- Elected to represent Battersea in the House of Commons.
- Regular articles that were published by the Fabian Society, which ended up recruiting over 2,000 people to become subscribers.
- Banned meetings of over fifty people and made magistrates to arrest everyone suspected of spreading libel.
- Became the full-time organizer of the Women's Social and Political Union in Leeds.
- A strong advocate of the eight-hour day.
- Opposed to Britain's involvement in the First World War; played an active role in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.
- Trade unionists used arson and murder to intimidate non-unionists.
- Elected as a paid organizer of the Iron Founders Union. Main person responsible for Labour and the Nation pamphlet.
- A meeting of the Social Democratic Federation that was banned, but continued and was attacked by the police.
- Became a full-time worker for the Women's Social and Political Union; joined the Independent Labour Party in 1914.
- Was given the post as leader of the House of Commons.
- Set up by Earl of Derby; Robert Applegarth was chosen as a union observer of the proceedings.
- A newspaper that had a loyal following with those who opposed social reform.
- A member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions; joined as the first working-class members of the House of Commons.
- Elected to the Trade Union Congress parliamentary committee; a member of the House of Commons.
- Protested working conditions and fines imposed upon women at Bryant & May in 1888.
- Social Democratic Federation's weekly newspaper.
- An important writer of books on the struggle for equality.
- Believed that the main function of all socialist organisations was to "educate the people."
- Contained reports on Chartist meets all over Britain.
- Secured the legal status of trade unions.
- Provided an important source of news during the 1926 General Strike.
- Made it legal for an individual to stop work.
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