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The '''1923 London dock strike''' commenced in June 1923 when 40,000 dockers were unhappy with a proposed pay reduction from 8s to 5s 6d for a four-hour minimum employment period.<ref>http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.4232/Dockers-march-during-the-strike-of-July-1923.html</ref> [[Ernest Bevin]], the [[general secretary]] of the recently founded [[Transport and General Workers' Union]] had signed an agreement accepting this new rate of pay. Thousands of dockers left TGWU to joined the [[Amalgamated Stevedores' Labour Protection League]] to form the [[ National Amalgamated Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen and Dockers]].<ref>http://www.billhunterweb.org.uk/articles/hands_off_the_blue_union.htm#linkonpage_CP</ref> |
The '''1923 London dock strike''' commenced in June 1923 when 40,000 dockers were unhappy with a proposed pay reduction from 8s to 5s 6d for a four-hour minimum employment period.<ref>http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.4232/Dockers-march-during-the-strike-of-July-1923.html</ref> [[Ernest Bevin]], the [[general secretary]] of the recently founded [[Transport and General Workers' Union]] had signed an agreement accepting this new rate of pay. Thousands of dockers left the TGWU to joined the [[Amalgamated Stevedores' Labour Protection League]] to form the [[ National Amalgamated Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen and Dockers]].<ref>http://www.billhunterweb.org.uk/articles/hands_off_the_blue_union.htm#linkonpage_CP</ref> |
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The 1923 London dock strike commenced in June 1923 when 40,000 dockers were unhappy with a proposed pay reduction from 8s to 5s 6d for a four-hour minimum employment period.[1] Ernest Bevin, the general secretary of the recently founded Transport and General Workers' Union had signed an agreement accepting this new rate of pay. Thousands of dockers left the TGWU to joined the Amalgamated Stevedores' Labour Protection League to form the National Amalgamated Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen and Dockers.[2]