Banned meetings of over fifty people and made magistrates to arrest everyone suspected of spreading libel.

Six measures attempting to suppress radical newspapers and meetings.

Made it illegal for workers to join to press their employers for shorter hours or may pay.

Took action against political agitation among industrial workers.

Secured the legal status of trade unions.

Removed trade union liability for damage by strike action.

Gave unions the right to divide its subscriptions into a political and a social fund.

Outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes, and banned civil servants from joining unions.

A member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions; joined as the first working-class members of the House of Commons.

Member of the Secular Society; wrote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population.

Elected as a paid organizer of the Iron Founders Union. Main person responsible for Labour and the Nation pamphlet.

Led a strike at Tilbury Dock; became involved in the London Dock Strike; one of England's leading socialists.

A meeting of the Social Democratic Federation that was banned, but continued and was attacked by the police.

Became a member of the Women's Trade Union League; wrote several books on the problem of low pay.

Made it legal for an individual to stop work.

Was opposed to the forming of the Triple Alliance with the miners and railwaymen.

Developed radical political views; refused to sign the Majority Report; appointed alderman of the new London County Council.

Formed in 1889 to protect gas workers from the power of their employers.

A full-time union official; formed the National Committee of Organised Labour for Old Age Pensions.

Campaigned for universal suffrage; published several books on trade unionism.

Established a trade union weekly newspaper, the Bee-Hive; gave support to trade unionists.

Became a full-time worker for the Women's Social and Political Union; joined the Independent Labour Party in 1914.

Elected to the Trade Union Congress parliamentary committee; a member of the House of Commons.

Campaigned to reduce the working week and an increase the wage in the building industry.

An important writer of books on the struggle for equality.

Devoted to improving the organisation of the Independent Labour Party.

Important figure in the amalgamation of several unions to form the National Union of Railwaymen.

Elected to represent Battersea in the House of Commons.

President of the Iron & Steel Trades Confederation.

Was given the post as leader of the House of Commons.

Social Democratic Federation's weekly newspaper.

Provided an important source of news during the 1926 General Strike.

Resulted from a dispute over pay and conditions in 1888.

A newspaper that had a loyal following with those who opposed social reform.

Became one of the first women to enter the House of Commons. She was elected as a labour MP.

Became the full-time organizer of the Women's Social and Political Union in Leeds.

Narrowly defined the rights of trade unions as meeting to bargain over wages and conditions.

Led the campaign to have the Minority Report accepted by the new Liberal government.

Opposed to Britain's involvement in the First World War; played an active role in the Miners' Federation of Great Britain.

Set up by Earl of Derby; Robert Applegarth was chosen as a union observer of the proceedings.

In response to the announcement of reduction of miner's wages; known as Red Friday.

A trade union weekly newspaper established in 1861.

A new radical unstamped journal, which was critical of Lord Liverpool and his government.

A socialist weekly established by Robert Blatchford in 1890.

Believed that the main function of all socialist organisations was to "educate the people."

A paper campaigning for the eight-hour day and denouncing bad employers.

Protested working conditions and fines imposed upon women at Bryant & May in 1888.

Regular articles that were published by the Fabian Society, which ended up recruiting over 2,000 people to become subscribers.

Contained reports on Chartist meets all over Britain.

Paper published arguing that the real struggle was for universal suffrage.

Educated working class readers about socialism and internationalism.

A radical journal criticizing the government about the Peterloo Massacre.

Trade unionists used arson and murder to intimidate non-unionists.

Campaigned for reform of the 1871 Trade Union Act.

A strong advocate of the eight-hour day.

Held a meeting every year to discuss issues of importance to the labour movement.

Newspaper attempting to recreate the Labour Party as a truly socialist organization.

Became chairman of the Public Control Committee and in this post promoted fair wages.

Helped to establish the National Union of Gasworkers & General Labourers.