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Leeds Trades And Labour Council
Leeds Trades Council is an organisation bringing together trade unionists in Leeds, in northern England. History The council was founded in 1860, and remained small during its first decade, largely consisting of a few local unions. In 1871, the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science held a conference in the town, and a speaker at the event denounced trade unionism. The trades council wrote an address in response to this, and then called a national conference on 2 December, chaired by its president, E. C. Denton. This marked the start of greater prominence for the council, which over the following decade attracted the affiliations of local branches of the national unions. During the 1880s, the council was dominated by supporters of the Liberal Party, including William Bune, Owen Connellan, John Judge, William Marston and Henry Maundrill. In 1887, it unanimously opposed the campaign for the Eight Hour Bill, describing it as Parliamentary "interference" in trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Maguire (socialist)
Tom Maguire (29 December 1865 – 8 March 1895) was a British socialist, trade union organiser and poet from Leeds. Early life Maguire was born to an Irish immigrant family in the poverty-stricken Bank area of Leeds. As a young boy he sang in the choir at St Anne's Church where he was noted for his 'musical voice and poetic tongue'. He received part of his education at Sunday school. Growing up he showed appreciation of his Irish heritage and immersed himself in the music and literature. He was drawn to Romantic poets, such as Shelley and Keats, and began writing his own poetry around this time. After leaving school, he took a job as a photographer's assistant. Introduction to socialism In 1883 Maguire came across a copy of ''The Christian Socialist'' in the local secular hall and was converted, helping to establish a branch of the Social Democratic Federation in September 1884. In 1885, the Leeds branch of the Social Democratic Federation dissolved and declared themselves as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brotherton (politician)
John Brotherton (7 March 1867 – 8 March 1941) was Labour MP for Gateshead. Born in Leeds, Brotherton completed an apprenticeship as an engineer, and joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, serving as a branch secretary for 21 years. Brotherton stood unsuccessfully as the Labour Party candidate for Gateshead at the 1918 United Kingdom general election. He won the seat from the Unionists in 1922, but lost it to the Liberals in 1923. In 1927, he was elected to Leeds City Council, serving until 1930, and again from 1932 onwards. He also served as the secretary of Leeds Trades Council Leeds Trades Council is an organisation bringing together trade unionists in Leeds, in northern England. History The council was founded in 1860, and remained small during its first decade, largely consisting of a few local unions. In 1871, the N ..., and represented it on the Trades Councils' Joint Consultative Committee. References 1867 births 1941 deaths Amalgamated Engine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds Trades Club Blue Plaque
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is located ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trades Union Congress
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre A national trade union center (or national center or central) is a federation or confederation of trade unions in a country. Nearly every country in the world has a national trade union center, and many have more than one. In some regions, such a ..., a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions. There are 48 affiliated unions, with a total of about 5.5 million members. Frances O'Grady, Baroness O'Grady of Upper Holloway, Frances O'Grady became General Secretary of the TUC, General Secretary in 2013 and presented her resignation in 2022, with Paul Nowak (trade unionist), Paul Nowak becoming the next General Secretary in January 2023. Organisation The TUC's decision-making body is the Annual Congress, which takes place in September. Between congresses decisions are made by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, General Council, which meets every two mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rent Strike
A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants come together and agree to refuse to pay their rent ''en masse'' until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord. This can be a useful tactic of final resort for use against intransigent landlords, but carries the obvious risk of eviction and bad credit history in some cases. Historically, rent strikes have often been used in response to problems such as high rents, poor conditions in the property, or unreasonable tenancy demands; however, there have been situations where wider issues have led to such action. Notable rent strikes Europe ;Glasgow :During the Irish Land War of the 1880s and during World War I when the landlords of tenement buildings in Glasgow sought to take advantage of the influx of shipbuilders coming into the city and the absence of many local men to raise rents on the tenements' remaining residents. These women left behind were seen as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Bealey
Frank William Bealey (31 August 1922 – 18 January 2013) was a British political scientist who was a pioneering founder of the academic study of politics and was a campaigner for democracy in Eastern Europe. Life Born in Bilston, Bealey was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, and during World War II, he served in the Royal Navy 1941-1946, serving on several ships, including HMS Marne and HMS Tortola, experiencing Arctic Convoys on both. He survived HMS Marne's torpedoing on the 12th November 1942 during Operation Torch. Bealey was de-mobbed in January 1946, entering a term late at The London School of Economics (LSE), and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in Government (Political Science) in 1948. Academic work After gaining his degree, he obtained a one-year British Council scholarship as a Finnish Government Scholar at the University of Helsinki, where he was also asked to teach temporarily at the Swedish and Finnish Universities of Abo/Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds East (UK Parliament Constituency)
Leeds East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Richard Burgon of the Labour Party. The constituency is notable for having been represented by Denis Healey who was the MP from 1955 to 1992. Healey was a prominent Labour frontbencher, serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and latterly as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Constituency profile This seat includes the areas of Leeds around York Road and Temple Newsam, including several large council estates. The seat is ethnically mixed and residents are poorer than the UK average.Electoral Calculus https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/fcgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Leeds+East Boundaries 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Leeds ward of East, and parts of the wards of Central, North, and North East. 1955–1974: The former County Borough of Leeds wards of Burmantofts, Crossgates, Halton, Harehills, and Osmondthorpe. 1974–1983: The County Borough of Leeds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pollard Byles
Sir William Pollard Byles (13 February 1839 – 15 October 1917) was a British newspaper owner and radical Liberal Party (UK), Liberal politician. Background Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1839, W P Byles was the son of William Byles, proprietor of the ''Bradford Observer'' and Anna Holden of Halifax.TDod's Parliamentary Companion, 1907 He eventually succeeded his father as owner of the newspaper, which had been renamed the ''Yorkshire Observer''. He married Sarah Anne Unwin of Colchester in 1865. They had no children. He was knight bachelor, knighted in 1911. Political career In 1892 United Kingdom general election, 1892 he was elected as Liberal Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for Shipley (UK Parliament constituency), Shipley. Upon election he became a member of the Interparliamentary Union for Peace and Arbitration. He lost his seat 1895 United Kingdom general election, three years later to Fortescue Flannery, his Conservative Party (UK), Conservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1900 UK General Election
The 1900 United Kingdom general election was held between 26 September and 24 October 1900, following the dissolution of Parliament on 25 September. Also referred to as the Khaki Election (the first of several elections to bear this sobriquet), it was held at a time when it was widely believed that the Second Boer War had effectively been won (though in fact it was to continue for another two years). The Conservative Party, led by Lord Salisbury with their Liberal Unionist allies, secured a large majority of 134 seats, despite securing only 5.6% more votes than Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals. This was largely owing to the Conservatives winning 163 seats that were uncontested by others. The Labour Representation Committee, later to become the Labour Party, participated in a general election for the first time. However, it had only been in existence for a few months; as a result, Keir Hardie and Richard Bell were the only LRC Members of Parliament elected in 1900. This w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labour Representation Committee (1900)
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) was a pressure group founded in 1900 as an alliance of socialist organisations and trade unions, aimed at increasing representation for labour interests in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party traces its origin to the LRC's foundation. Formation In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R. Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates. The motion was passed at all stages by the TUC, and the proposed conference was held at the Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street on 26 and 27 February 1900. The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working-class and left-wing organisations — trades unions represented about a half of the unions and one third of the membership of the TUC delegates. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Turner (trade Unionist)
Sir Ben Turner (1863 – 30 September 1942) was an English trade unionist and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Batley and Morley from 1922 to 1924 and from 1929 to 1931. Born in Holmfirth, Turner later claimed that his family had connections to the Chartist and Luddite movements. He became a textile worker, and first joined a trade union in 1883, when he has involved in a strike of weavers in Huddersfield. He worked as a full-time union organiser from 1889.H. A. Clegg, ''A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889: 1911-1933'', p. 580 Turner was Secretary of the Heavy Woollen district branch of the West Riding of Yorkshire Power Loom Weavers' Association from 1892, then General President of the General Union of Textile Workers and its successor, the National Union of Textile Workers, from 1902 to 1933. A supporter of independent workers' representation, Turner was elected to a local school board in 1892, and was a founder member of the Independent Labour Party i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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