In fact the strike was largely peaceful and restrained, and fears of future outbreaks were quelled somewhat by the passing of the Trades Disputes Act.

This short term behind bars was because the Trades Disputes Act of 1927 was used against the supporters of the strike among whom the WIL were prominent.

By employing the well-established legal distinction between ordinary and hazardous work, the governor also won legislative approval for a Dangerous Trades Act that barred young workers from thirty occupations.

* A new Combination Act in the United Kingdom makes Trades unions legal according to narrowly-defined principles.

A general strike was organised by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, as a protest against the British army's declaration of a " Special Military Area " under the Defence of the Realm Act, which covered most of Limerick city and a part of the county.

Trade unions in Malaysia are regulated by the Trades Unions Act 1959 ( TUA ).

WorkChoices legislation was superseded by the Fair Work Act 2009 on 1 July 2009 which, whilst seen as an improvement for workers, has attracted criticism from industry experts, the Australian Greens Party and organized labour, especially the Victorian Branch of the Electrical Trades Union.

Later it became a collegiate technical school ( Tarlac School of Arts and Trades ) in 1959 and then a full-fledged state college ( Tarlac College of Technology ) in 1965, and finally, was converted into a state university ( Tarlac State University ) on October 13, 1989 by virtue of Republic Act 6764.

As the original property was granted for the specific purpose of being used as a Trades Hall, the Brisbane Trades Hall Management Act 1984 was required to be passed authorising the transaction, with planning controls on the use of the original historic building.

At the beginning of the Irish War of Independence, a general strike was organised by the Limerick Trades and Labour Council, as a protest against the British army's declaration of a " Special Military Area " under the Defence of the Realm Act, which covered most of Limerick city and a part of the county.

Carlton is home to some of Melbourne's most historically significant buildings such as Melbourne Trades Hall and the World Heritage Site of the Carlton Gardens, the Royal Exhibition Building and the ruins of the old Carlton Brewery, a collection of buildings constructed between 1864 and 1927, all listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Originally known as the Trades & Labor Council, Perth from 1891, the organisation has gone through several name changes including the Western Australian Branch of the Australian Labour Federation in 1907 ; Australian Labor Party ( WA ) in 1927 ; Trade Unions Industrial Council ( ALP, WA ) in 1947.

He became an active trade unionist and at the age of 17 was elected to the Auckland Trades Council.

Carpet Trades Operatic Society ( CTOS ) was founded in 1945 and is also affiliated with the National Operatic and Dramatic Association ( NODA ).

* Composer Katherine Allan Lively dedicated her piano composition, Within the Walls of China: A Chinese Episode, to Barthelmess in the sheet music published in 1923 by G. Schirmer, Inc. An article in The Music Trades reported that Mrs. Lively was inspired by a viewing of the film, Broken Blossoms, and performed the piece for Mr. Barthelmess and his friends in New York in the summer of 1922

The first " Trades School " in the UK was Stanley Technical Trades School ( now Harris Academy South Norwood ) which was designed, built and set up by William Stanley.

Its membership stood around 13, 000 by 1920, and it was granted legal status in 1921 under the Trades Union Ordinance.

* June 26, 1946: Brooklyn, New York A 15-year-old schoolboy who balked at turning over his pocket money to a gang of seven youths was shot in the chest at 11: 30 A. M. in the basement of the Public School 147 annex of the Brooklyn High School for Automotive Trades.

* October 8, 1953: New York City, New York Larry Licitra, 17-year-old student at the Machine and Metal Trades High School, was shot and slightly wounded in the right shoulder in the lobby of the school while inspecting a handmade pistol owned by one of several students.

It was called by the general council of the Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for 800, 000 locked-out coal miners.

Much of the African diaspora was dispersed throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas during the Atlantic and Arab Slave Trades.

The General Trades Union of the City of New York ( GTU ) was formed in 1833 by delegates from nine craft trades.

Prior to 1928, the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress shared offices on Eccleston Square, and it was here in 1926 that the general strike was organised.

In 1922 the Herald was desperately short of funds and Lansbury reluctantly handed over the paper to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party.

Certainly by 1542, a white saltire set against a blue background was depicted as being the flag of Scotland, although an even earlier example known as the " Blue Blanket of the Trades of Edinburgh ", reputedly made by Queen Margaret, wife of James III ( 1451 – 1488 ), also shows a white saltire on a blue field.

Another major problem for the party was its policy of abnegating its own role and calling upon the General Council of the Trades Union Congress to play a revolutionary role.

Gair was ultimately successful in a negotiated end to the strike, but the effect was to cement an unlikely anti-Gair alliance between the militants of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council ( TLC ) ( represented by Boilermaker's Union secretary Jack Egerton ) and the AWU.

According to Warner's autobiography, Jack of All Trades, Elizabeth II once visited the television studio where the series was made and told Warner " that she thought Dixon of Dock Green had become part of the British way of life ".

Forverts was a successor to New York's first Yiddish-language socialist newspaper, Di Arbeter Tsaytung ( The Workman's Paper ), a weekly established in 1890 by the fledgling Jewish trade union movement centered in the United Hebrew Trades as a vehicle for bringing socialist and trade unionist ideas to non-English speaking immigrants.

* 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.

The King, senior Anglican bishops, MPs from the Liberal and Labour parties, Oswald Mosley, Jan Smuts, the Trades Union Congress and parts of the press were increasingly critical of the actions of the Black and Tans.

The Toronto Trades and Labour Council ( successor to the TTA ) held similar celebrations every spring.

Rechristened the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union in 1940 and under the new leadership of Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, the union established a political arm, the St. Kitts and Nevis Labour Party, which put Bradshaw in the Legislative Council in 1946.

The Antigua Trades and Labour Union, formed shortly afterward, became the political vehicle for Vere Cornwall Bird who became the union's president in 1943.

The Building and Metal Trade Councils appealed to the Trades and Labour Union, the central union body representing the interests of many of Winnipeg's workers, for support in their endeavours.

The Trades and Labour Union, in a spirit of solidarity, voted in favour of a sympathetic strike in support of the Building and Metal Trade Councils.

At that time the Liverpool District Labour Party and the Trades Council was a single body, the Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party, until it was split, against the wishes of the left, in 1969.

She became president of the Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party in 1945 and was MP for Liverpool Exchange.

The Jarrow March is fondly remembered by those on the left in British politics as a landmark in the history of labour movement, even though the Labour Party of the day opposed it, and the Trades Union Congress circularised Trades Councils advising them not to help the marchers.

The STUC is a separate organisation from the British Trades Union Congress ( TUC ), having being established in 1897 as a result of a political dispute with the TUC regarding political representation for the Labour movement.

As the TUC expanded and formalised its role as the " General Staff of the Labour Movement " it incorporated the Trades Councils who had given birth to it, eventually becoming the body which authorised these local arms of the TUC to speak on behalf of the wider Trade Union Movement at local and County level.

Various organisations participated in the Convention, such as the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish Green Party, the Communist Party, the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry, the Small Business Federation and various bodies representing other strands of political opinion as well as civic society in general.