Fifty Years of Railway Trade Unionism (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fifty Years of Railway Trade Unionism Chapman's First Balance Sheet - The Financial Tangle - Evans' First Balance Sheet - Considered by his Contemporaries as a Masterpiece - The Balance Sheet a History of that Time; History in Making as Seen in E. C. Resolutions - Society Bankrupt - Manchester District and Cordwell's Good Work - Evans' Plea for a Fighting Union - Fourth Delegate Meeting Makes Such Annual - Efforts to Legalise Workmen's Compensation - Derby Orphanage - A.S.R.S. Edged out of Management - Chapman's Efforts for Sectionalism - 1879 Midland Guards' Strike - Evans' Counsel Establish a Protection Fund and Fight - Efforts for Protection Fund Raise a Storm - Beginning of A.S.L.E, & F. - Mr. Parfitt Gives its History - General Election, 1880: Liberals Returned - Employers' Liability Carried by Evans' Efforts - Protection Fund Started - The Battle of the Brakes - Graham Retires; Passing of Three Great Personalities - Canon Jenkins' Death - Vincent's Expulsion from the Union - Dr. Baxter Langley Goes to Prison; Exeter Hall Meeting to Launch the Hours on Sunday Pay Movement - Harford and Boon Secretaries to Movement - "Review" Purchase and Disapproval - Failure of the Hours' Movement - Society Goes into the Depths - Evans Dispirited and Resigns - Withdraws Resignation on Pressure - Expenditure; 1,516 above Income - Caledonian Strike - Evans given Holiday but does not Return; Harford Elected Secretary - Robert Whitmore Re-appears - "Scotia's" Advent - Bass Dies - Branch Opened in Ireland - Nine Elms Coupling Exhibition - Channing's Parliamentary Efforts - Brighton Congress - Midland Drivers' Strike - Hexthorpe Disaster - Pilcher Elected Trustee - 1889 Congress, All Grades Movement Launched - Alcock, "Boy" of Congress - Rejected Scale - Cave against Harford - Start of G.R.W.U. - G.R.W.U. President and Alcock - Maddison, Editor of "Review" - Strike on Taff Vale Successful - Illegal Prize Draw - Harford Suspended - Ballot Taken on N.E. for Strike; The Scotch Strike - Paralysis - Channing's Indictment of Long Hours - Select Committee Appointed to Inquire into Long Hours - Witnesses, Good and Bad - Cambrian Directors: Harford, Garrity, members of Tyne Dock, Alcock, Chairman of Stratford Branch, Summoned before Committee for Breach of House of Commons Privileges - Acquittal of All except Cambrian Directors - Diehards of Committee Defeated at General Election - Efforts to Amalgamate with Scotch Society and G.R.W.U. - Death of Scammel (Belfast) - Death of Foreman - Death of Macliver (President) - Hudson President - James Holmes Dismissed G.N. - Lazenby Elected Treasurer; Papers Catering for Railwaymen - Various Headquarters - Unity House and Art; Protection Grants Mount Up - Harford and Northampton - Hudson, Tait, Tevenan, and Bell - Signalnien's Conference at Derby - Wholesale Dismissals on Great Eastern - Rising Tide of Membership - High Tension in 1893 - Railway Sub-inspectors Appointed - Robert Whitmore Expelled - Climpson, the First Treasurer, Retires from Railway Work - Harrison, of L. & N. W., Harasses Men - Indictment and Dismissal of Harford About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."