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1911 Liverpool general transport strike

Field	Value
title	1911 Liverpool general transport strike
partof	the Great Unrest
date	June – August 1911
place	Liverpool
methods	General strike
result	Strike suppressed
side1	National Sailors' and Firemen's Union
side2	Liverpool City Police
[18th Royal Hussars](18th-royal-hussars)
leadfigures1	Tom Mann
leadfigures2	Winston Churchill
howmany1	85,000 workers and supporters
howmany2	3,500 British Army troops
fatalities	2 people
injuries	365 people

18th Royal Hussars

The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike, also known as the great transport workers' strike, involved dockers, railway workers, sailors and other tradesmen. The strike paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of the summer of 1911. It also transformed trade unionism on Merseyside. For the first time, general trade unions were able to establish themselves on a permanent footing and become genuine mass organisations of the working class.

Strike

Policemen in Liverpool were protected by military

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. 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".

Home Secretary Winston Churchill sent in troops and positioned the cruiser in the Mersey.

References

(2003-01-17). "Braddock, (Bessie) Elisabeth". International Centre for Digital Content.
''Near to Revolution: The Liverpool general transport Strike'' North West TUC, 2011
(9 October 2011). "The Liverpool General Transport Strike of 1911". London Socialist Historians Group.
Hikins, Harold. "The Liverpool General Transport Strike, 1911".

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