Trade Unions + Rise of Labour Party

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1880/90s
There was a recovery of trade → numbers of trade unions grew
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Dockers’ Strike 1889
Victory for the unskilled work force

Drew attention to poverty of such people in Victorian Britain
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New Unionism 1890s
Formation of several trade unions that were far more working class than had been previously the case

Many of these unions represented unskilled/less skilled labour → power remained in hands of employers, who could replace them during a strike
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Union Membership 1892
Over 1,500,000

Growth accompanied by growth in **militancy**

miners’ lock out 1893 saw widespread violence + new tactic of trying to stop as many mines as possible from working
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1897-8 strike of Amalgamated Society of Engineers
defeated by employers

caused workers to seek **political** action instead of trade union action

seemed union only addressed wages + working hours, not the wider problem of **widespread poverty**
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Taff Vale Judgement 1900
Strike in Taff Vale Railway company resulted in company seeking an injunction against the union for picketing of stations in Cardiff

Injunction granted + union made liable
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Taff Vale Decision 1901
Undermined right to strike

Unions had to pay unlimited damages to their employers for any revenue lost in the strike
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Labour Representation Committee
Liberals rejected working class men

1899: Trade Union Congress decided to get more labour representation in Parliament

1900: TUC sent 129 delegates to TUC conference + formed the LRC.

1901-03: all major unions except miners supported the LRC as unions realised they needed representation in Parliament.

1903: membership >861,000
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1900 Election
Keir Hardie and Richard Bell (LRC MPs) elected
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1906 Liberal Victory
Labour got 29 MPs

Once at Westminster, renamed to Labour Party
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Labour-Liberal alliance
agreed not to challenge each other for seats they could win from Conservatives

Labour supported Liberals

helped government pass much of its social reform legislation, i.e. National Insurance Bill 1911
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Osborne Legal Judgement 1910
trade union members had to ‘contract in’ if they wanted some of their wages to go to a trade union - before the judgement they had to ‘contract out’

(reduces funding for trade unions)
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1910 + 1911 Elections
40 and 42 seats
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Trade Disputes Act 1913
helped expansion of Labour Party
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WW1
leading Labour members were in the coalition directing the war effort
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Fair rent and price controls
led to Labour being the working class party
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Post-WW1
Liberals in disarray allowed Labour to emerge as the official opposition to the Conservatives

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