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The Great Unrest, also known as the Great Labour Unrest, was a period of labour revolt between 1911 and 1914 [1] in the United Kingdom. The agitation included the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike , the Tonypandy riots , the National coal strike of 1912 and the 1913 Dublin lockout .
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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 ...
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What became known as the Tonypandy riots [1] of 1910 and 1911 (sometimes collectively known as the Rhondda riots) were a series of violent confrontations between the striking coal miners and police that took place at various locations in and around the Rhondda mines of the Cambrian Combine, a cartel of mining companies formed to regulate prices ...
The Great Unrest period from 1911 to 1914 would see a number of other school strikes, most notably the Burston Strike School, where students striked in support of Annie Higdon, a teacher who had been fired for complaining about dire conditions in schools and who was a socialist who had spoken out in favour of local farm labourers. [9]
The Llanelli riots of 1911 were a series of events precipitated by the National Railway Strike of 1911. Mass picketing action at Llanelli railway station was brutally suppressed by the police, [1] resulting in the deaths of two men, shot dead by troops of the Worcestershire Regiment. Rioting followed and magistrates' homes were attacked and ...
January 11 – Fort Vermilion records the coldest temperature in North America at −61.2 °C (−78.2 °F), holding the record until 1947. May 16 – James Palmer becomes Premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing F. L. Haszard