Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When this disturbance is over and Parliament resumes its normal functions, it will be very necessary to appreciate that this general strike is not a strike at all. The resolution of the Trade Union Congress to call everybody out, regardless of contracts made by workmen, is not a lawful...
...Every railwayman, for example, who went on strike in disregard of his contract is personally liable to be sued in the County Court for damages. Every trade union leader who advised or promoted this course of action is liable to damages to the uttermost farthing† of his personal possessions. I feel it my duty, at whatever cost, to make that plain...
...Strikers. The sensation of the week was the rejection by the British Trade Union Council of a "strike fund" check for 250,000 gold rubles ($125,000) despatched to it by the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions. At Amsterdam, however, the Netherlands Trade Union Congress voted 60,000 gulden ($24,250) for the same purpose, with every prospect of its being most gratefully accepted, and in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Mexico, labor organizations manifested their sympathy for the British strikers by commendatory votes, scattered strikes, monetary contributions, or by taking steps to hamper essential exports to Britain...
...British Trade Union Council directed its activities last week chiefly to strengthening the morale of the strikers, starting machinery for issuing "strike pay" to the five or six million men who had stopped work, and combating the Government's anti-strike propaganda. As an example of this last phase of activity, heated words were penned and printed upon both sides as to how many London subway trains were actually in operation. Government publicity gave the impression that the service approached normal, Labor publicity that it approached paralysis, and Londoners who experienced for themselves came to various conclusions...
Arthur Pugh, for many years a steelworker, now chairman of the Trade Union Council, represented the focus of the entire general strike. His chief strike lieutenants, outside his personal Tsardom (steel), were: A. J. Cook (Coal); J. H. Thomas (Railways); Ben Tillet (Docks...