Unions Collection (page 3)

Group of girls at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of girls at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical smock dresses, pinafores and straw hats

Ashford Schools, Surrey
Located on Woodthorpe Road, at Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, and opened in 1872 as the West London District School, it provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from

Pierrots at Langho Colony, Ribblesdale, Lancashire
The Blackwites pierrot troupe at the Langho Colony in 1925. The colony, at Langho in Ribblesdale, Lancashire, was set up in 1906 by the Chorlton

Central London District Schools, Hanwell, Middlesex
Entrance lodge of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, Middlesex, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. A drinking fountain stands outside the gate

Union Demonstration
At the Salle Pilodo, France, a huge gathering of workers demand the right to form unions like they have in England

T. G. W. U Dress Party 1934
A fancy dress party at the Transport and General Workers Union convalescent home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire; who says trade unionists lack humour?

Working Mens Assoc
Certificate of membership of the International Working Mens Association signed by officers from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Poland as well as the United States

Land Congress
The first All-Russian Congress of Land is held at the House of the Unions, Moscow

May Day March - 1936
Workers organisations hold May Day celebrations in Hyde Park - London. This banner is for the Shoreditch Trades Council

Early Trade Union C1835
Initiation into a TRADE UNION - due to official hostility (unionists were perceived as revolutionaries) the earliest unions conducted themselves like secret societies

Striking masons meeting in a London pub
A committee meeting of striking masons held in a London pub

Union of Railwaymen
Members of the Bermondsey branch of the National Union of Railwaymen pose for a photograph with their Workers of the World Unite banner and their marching drums

Trades Unions Demo
TRADES UNION REFORM demonstration, London : the crowd in Waterloo Place

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