Record

Performance TitleGreat Rally, in aid of The Locked-Out Workers in the London Building Industries Federation
Performance Date8 May 1914
Performance DayFriday
Main PerformersHenry D Harben,
S Stennett,
Jack Jones,
H G Adams,
A G Cameron,
George Lansbury,
John Stokes,
Robt. Williams,
J V Wills,
John Scurr - speakers,
Ernest Dale - organ
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands, Edmonton Socialist Band and Band of the Musicians Union
ChoirsUnited Socialist Choir
ConductorsW Brotherton
Set ListOrgan Recital (Ernest Dale),
Vocal Selections: 'Comrades Song of Hope' (United Socialist Choir),
'The International' (United Socialist Choir),
Music by Massed Bands,
Song: 'England, Arise!',
Chairmans Speech (Henry D Harben),
Speeches:
S Stennett,
Jack Jones,
H G Adams,
A G Cameron,
George Lansbury,
Appeal - Collection for Women's and Children's Relief Fund,
Speeches:
John Stokes,
Robert Williams,
J V Wills,
John Scurr,
'The Red Flag'
Performance NotesTrades' Union Meeting.

Early in 1914 London was gripped by a lock-out of 30,000 building workers. They were locked out by The Grand Master Builders Federation because of a series of strikes for better pay the workers had undertaken in 1912-1913 and the worker's growing refusal to work with non-union workers. large crowd of building labourers carrying a banner of the Builders and General Labourers Union attended the laying of the foundation stone of St Mark Church, Bathurst Gardens, Kensal Rise, Harlesden by Lady Hilda Mosley on Saturday afternoon. Lady Mosley was booed and hooted by the building workers and the crowd sang the "Red Flag".
The dispute building workers remained solid and the dispute was not settled at the outbreak of the War in August 1914.
(Glasgow Herald, 27 April 1914)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1914/27)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1914/27Great Rally, in support of the Locked-Out Workers in the London Building Industries Federation8 May 1914
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
CfatiexoonitahGreat Rally, in aid of The Locked-Out Workers in the London Building Industries Federation1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/4560Harben; Henry D. (1874-?); English author, Fabian
DS/UK/4814Jones; Jack Larkin (1913-2009); British trade union leader, General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union
DS/UK/163Lansbury; George (1859-1940); British Labour politician
DS/UK/4815Cameron; Alexander Gordon (1876-1944); British trades unionist, Labour politician
DS/UK/4559Williams; Robert (1881-1920s); British trade union organiser
DS/UK/4817Wills; J. V. (fl 1910s); British trade unionist
DS/UK/4818Scurr; John (1876-1932); English Labour politician, trade union official
DS/UK/4819Musicians Union; Band of the Musicians Union; fl 1912; British band
DS/UK/4820United Socialist Choir; fl 1914; British choir
DS/UK/4822Dale; Ernest (fl 1913-1914); British organist
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