The Great London Dock Strike 1889 - Herbert Morrison - London County Council (LCC)

 

The Dockers Union - London 1887

The Dockers union was founded in London in July 1887 as the Tea Operatives & General Labourers' Association

The first meeting held at the Royal Oak, Hackney Road 

The union was central to the famous London dock strike of 1889

the union was formed to organise opposition to a cut in wages for workers involved in unloading and processing tea at the East & West India Dock Company's Cutler Street warehouse. 

Harry Orbell - President
Dock, Wharf, Riverside & General Workers' Union (Later TGWU)

Henry "Harry" Orbell (4 November 1860 – 27 March 1914) was a the first London dockers leader

Born in Bethnal Green

Buried Bow Cemetery

Tom McCarthy Born in Limehouse to parents from Ireland,circa 1862

Early dockers leaders as Secretary of the Stevedore's Union

Amalgamated Stevedores' Labour Protection League

Great Dock Strike 1889

He was a founder of the ILP

buried in "sacred" Bow Cemetery September 1899

National Union of Public Employees - NUPE Southall

 NUPE branches

at Southall and Ealing established in 1936

NUPE Officers 1936 - National Union of Public Employees

 

London County Council 1934 - Where Labour Rule - Herbert Morrison LCC