1911 Liverpool general transport strike

none November 2019 1911 Liverpool general transport strike the Great Unrest June – August 1911 Liverpool General strike Strike suppressed National Sailors' and Firemen's Union Liverpool City Police18th Royal Hussars Tom Mann Winston Churchill 85,000 workers and supporters 3,500 British Army troops 2 people 365 people The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike was a major protest of unskilled workers including dockers, railway workers, sailors and other tradesmen for the right to unionize, along with better pay and conditionsDavies Sam Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool 2016-10-01 Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies 0 Deslippe Dennis https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 2026-09-29 University of Illinois Press 10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 978-0-252-04049-8 Fure-Slocum Eric Mckerley John W. subscription . For the first time, unskilled trade unions were able to establish themselves on a permanent footing and become genuine mass organizations of the working class.Davies Sam Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool 2016-10-01 Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies 0 Deslippe Dennis https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 2026-09-29 University of Illinois Press 10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 978-0-252-04049-8 Fure-Slocum Eric Mckerley John W. subscription The strike paralyzed Liverpool commerce for most of the summer of 1911 since Liverpool's industry was based around ports, whose workers were striking.Davies Sam Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool 2016-10-01 Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies 0 Deslippe Dennis https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 2026-09-29 University of Illinois Press 10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 978-0-252-04049-8 Fure-Slocum Eric Mckerley John W. subscription The strike peaked on Bloody Sunday when a crowd of 80,000 congregating in the city center, 365 people were injured in total including when police opened fire resulted in the death of two and wounding 13.Davies Sam Remembering the 1911 General Transport Strike in Liverpool 2016-10-01 Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies 0 Deslippe Dennis https://doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 2026-09-29 University of Illinois Press 10.5406/illinois/9780252040498.003.0008 978-0-252-04049-8 Fure-Slocum Eric Mckerley John W. subscription Strike thumb|Strikers thumb|Policemen in Liverpool were protected by military thumb|Plaque memorizing two deaths Strike action began on 14 June when the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union announced a nationwide merchant seamen's strike. Solidarity action in support of the seamen led to other sections of workers striking. A strike committee, chaired by the syndicalist Tom Mann, was formed to represent all of the workers in dispute. Many meetings were held on St. George's Plateau, next to St. George’s Hall, on Lime Street, including the rally on 13 August in which police carried out a baton charge a crowd of 85,000 people, who had gathered to hear Tom Mann speak.Braddock, (Bessie) Elisabeth http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=369 2009-03-01 2003-01-17 International Centre for Digital Content Liverpool History On-Line website https://web.archive.org/web/20090116224034/http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=369 16 January 2009 dead The event became known as "Bloody Sunday". In the police charges and subsequent unrest that carried on through the following night, over 350 people were injured. 3,500 British troops had become stationed in the city. Two days later, soldiers of the 18th Hussars opened fire on a crowd on Vauxhall Road, injuring fifteen, two fatally: John Sutcliffe, a 19-year-old carter, was shot twice in the head, and Michael Prendergast, a 30-year-old docker, was shot twice in the chest. An inquest into their deaths later brought in a verdict of "justifiable homicide".Near to Revolution: The Liverpool general transport Strike North West TUC, 2011 Home Secretary Winston Churchill sent in troops and positioned the cruiser Antrim 1903 6 in the Mersey. http://londonsocialisthistorians.blogspot.com/2011/10/liverpool-general-transport-strike-of.html 9 October 2011 5 October 2015 London Socialist Historians Group The Liverpool General Transport Strike of 1911Hikins Harold https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/113-7-Hikins.pdf The Liverpool General Transport Strike, 1911 See also Organized labour Great Unrest References Further reading Taplin, E.L. Near to Revolution: The Liverpool General Transport Strike of 1911 Bluecoat press, 1994 External links Libertarian Communist perspective on strike Full calendar of 1911 Liverpool in issue 17 of Nerve magazine Liverpool General Transport Strike, 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike Category:General strikes in the United Kingdom Category:Labour disputes in England Category:Industrial history of England Category:Politics of Liverpool Category:1910s in Liverpool Category:Transport strikes