The Scottish Railway Strike, 1891: A History and CriticismW. Brown, 1891 - 66 strani |
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... week . " " 92 " } It is alleged by the men that the conditions of work became more and more severe during the summer and early autumn of 1890. Meetings of the men were held in August and September , and a series of formal demands were ...
... week . " " 92 " } It is alleged by the men that the conditions of work became more and more severe during the summer and early autumn of 1890. Meetings of the men were held in August and September , and a series of formal demands were ...
Stran 10
... week's work , and when called out for duty at any time , or waiting orders by instruction , a full day's pay be paid , and the custom of booking men off duty for periods during the running of their maximum day's work be abolished . " To ...
... week's work , and when called out for duty at any time , or waiting orders by instruction , a full day's pay be paid , and the custom of booking men off duty for periods during the running of their maximum day's work be abolished . " To ...
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... week to a month . The men may rely upon their notices being presented according to the terms of their agree- ment , and at a time to secure that all railways must stop work according to the conditions and time hereafter specified . DATE ...
... week to a month . The men may rely upon their notices being presented according to the terms of their agree- ment , and at a time to secure that all railways must stop work according to the conditions and time hereafter specified . DATE ...
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... week hence . The amendment was received with loud and prolonged cheering . The mover , continuing , said he was aware that the proposal was not according to law , but in Glasgow in a proposal to give a week's notice 12.
... week hence . The amendment was received with loud and prolonged cheering . The mover , continuing , said he was aware that the proposal was not according to law , but in Glasgow in a proposal to give a week's notice 12.
Stran 13
... week's notice at once , and 875 to abide by the decision of the Executive not to strike until the number of resignations justified such action . At the meeting held in Glasgow on 21st December , the Executive announced that additional ...
... week's notice at once , and 875 to abide by the decision of the Executive not to strike until the number of resignations justified such action . At the meeting held in Glasgow on 21st December , the Executive announced that additional ...
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15th November 21st December 29th January Act of Parliament aggregate agitation alleged Amalgamated Society Board British Railway Company Caledonian Railway Company capital carried cessation of labour Circular to Staff coal Committee corporate action deputation directors districts Dockers Dundee duty Edinburgh effect employed employees employment engine-drivers Executive feeling firemen fortnight Glasgow and South-Western Glasgow Herald grades grievances Haldane hours of labour house or place immediate strike increased industrial issue large number locomotive Lord Aberdeen manager maximum meetings Motherwell negotiations North British Railway North British system North Eastern Railway number of hours obtain or communicate overtime paid passenger person picketing Polmadie position probably Railway Servants railway strike reason reduction of hours result roadside station Scotland Scottish railway secretary settlement signalmen Society of Railway South-Western Railway struggle ten-hours day tion total number trade unions traffic trains wages Walker watching or besetting week workmen
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Stran 42 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Stran 44 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority,— 1.
Stran 42 - Watches or besets the house or other place where such other person resides, or works, or carries on business, or happens to be, or the approach to such house or place ; or 5.
Stran 41 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute (between employers and workmen) 1 shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Stran 46 - Where any person wilfully and maliciously breaks a contract of service or of hiring, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to endanger human life, or cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether real or personal to destruction or serious injury...
Stran 49 - Rent to be thereon reserved ; nor from supplying or contracting to supply to any such Artificer any Victuals dressed or prepared under the Roof of any such Employer, and there consumed by such Artificer ; nor from making or contracting to make any Stoppage or Deduction from the Wages of any such Artificer for or in respect of any such Rent...
Stran 47 - Shall, on conviction thereof by a court of summary jurisdiction, or on indictment as hereinafter mentioned, be liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour.
Stran 60 - ... natural rights"; but that it must be determined by, and vary with, circumstances. I conceive it to be demonstrable that the higher and the more complex the organization of the social body, the more closely is the life of each member bound up with that of the whole; and the larger becomes the category of acts which cease to be merely self-regarding, and which interfere with the freedom of others more or less seriously.
Stran 46 - ... knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, will be to deprive the inhabitants of...
Stran 44 - Attending at or near or approaching to such house or other place as aforesaid, in order merely to obtain or communicate information, shall not be deemed a watching or besetting within the meaning of this section.