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The Trade Union Movement

• - 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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