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John Robert Bell (1862 – 25 August 1924) was a British trade unionist and political activist. Born in County Durham, Bell grew up in South Shields. He became a sailor at an early age, and travelled widely. [1] He lived in the United States for many years, where he worked as an official with the International Seamen's Union. [2]
[13] [19] Representatives to the union convention voted on August 14 to authorize a strike for the following month. [20] The union demanded recognition from Southern mill owners, a minimum wage of $20 a week, and a reinstatement of workers fired for union activity. [17] Over 400,000 workers up and down the East Coast went on strike. [17]
The coal industry flourished in Victorian times, drawing immigrants from far and wide. In South Shields the population soared from approximately 12,000 in 1801 to 75,000 by the late 1860s. Collieries in South Shields included: Templetown (1805–1826) St. Hilda's (1810–1940) West Harton (1844–1969) Boldon (1869–1982) Marsden (1879–1968)
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
Jim Slater (4 October 1923 – 30 May 1993) was a British trade union leader. Born in South Shields, Slater went to sea in 1941, and joined the National Union of Seamen (NUS). [1] During World War II, he served in the Merchant Navy. On one occasion his ship was torpedoed and sank, and in line with practice at the time, his pay was immediately ...
John Sayles's novel Union Dues (1977) is a fictional account of miners fighting for proper union representation in 1969. The Boyle-Yablonski dispute is a sub-plot which several characters mention, expressing their opinions of unions and corruption. The 1986 HBO television movie Act of Vengeance was about the union struggle and the murders.
The city of Fresno agreed to settle a negligence lawsuit in which a former FAX bus driver was accused of hitting and killing a pedestrian in 2018.
Edgar Samuel David Graham, MPA, BL (24 February 1954 – 7 December 1983) was an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician and academic from Northern Ireland. He was regarded as a rising star of both legal studies and Unionism and a possible future leader of the UUP.