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1817 Gagging Acts http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRgagging.htm Banned meetings of over fifty people and made magistrates to arrest everyone suspected of spreading libel. 1819 Six Acts http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRsix.htm Six measures attempting to suppress radical newspapers and meetings. 1825 Combination Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lcombination25.htm Made it illegal for workers to join to press their employers for shorter hours or may pay. 1825 Combination Acts http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lcombination.htm Took action against political agitation among industrial workers. 1871 Trade Union Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Ltrade.htm Secured the legal status of trade unions. 1906 Trades Disputes Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Ldisputes.htm Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action. 1913 Trade Union Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Ltrade13.htm Gave unions the right to divide its subscriptions into a political and a social fund. 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Ltrade27.htm Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions. Alexander Macdonald http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUmacdonald.htm A member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions; joined as the first working-class members of the House of Commons. Annie Besant http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wbesant.htm Member of the Secular Society; wrote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population. Arthur Henderson http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUhenderson.htm Elected as a paid organizer of the Iron Founders Union. Main person responsible for Labour and the Nation pamphlet. Ben Tillett http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REtillett.htm Led a strike at Tilbury Dock; became involved in the London Dock Strike; one of England's leading socialists. Bloody Sunday http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbloody.htm A meeting of the Social Democratic Federation that was banned, but continued and was attacked by the police. Clementina Black http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wblack.htm Became a member of the Women's Trade Union League; wrote several books on the problem of low pay. Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Lconspiracy.htm Made it legal for an individual to stop work. Ernest Bevin http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbevin.htm Was opposed to the forming of the Triple Alliance with the miners and railwaymen. Frederic Harrison http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUharrison.htm Developed radical political views; refused to sign the Majority Report; appointed alderman of the new London County Council. Gas Workers Union http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgas.htm Formed in 1889 to protect gas workers from the power of their employers. George Barnes http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbarnes.htm A full-time union official; formed the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pensions. George Howell http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUhowell.htm Campaigned for universal suffrage; published several books on trade unionism. George Potter http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUpotter.htm Established a trade union weekly newspaper, the Bee-Hive; gave support to trade unionists. Hannah Mitchell http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmitchell.htm Became a full-time worker for the Women's Social and Political Union; joined the Independent Labour Party in 1914. Harry Gosling http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUgosling.htm Elected to the Trade Union Congress parliamentary committee; a member of the House of Commons. Henry Broadhurst http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUbroadhurst.htm Campaigned to reduce the working week and an increase the wage in the building industry. Isabella Ford http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wford.htm An important writer of books on the struggle for equality.
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