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Description: | British civilian worked in stores of marine engineering firms in Sunderland and as apprentice fitter with Brown Bros at Rosebank Ironworks in Edinburgh, GB, 1914- 1919
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian with marine engineering firms in Sunderland, GB, 1914-1916: reaction to outbreak of First World War, 1914; marine engineering war order work; wages; work regime; pressure of work; friction caused by demarcation of work in ship yards; accidents; holidays; restrictions on working hours for those under sixteen; night school; trade unions; closed shops. Recollections of period as apprentice fitter with Brown Bros at the Rosebank Ironworks in Edinburgh, GB, 1916-1919: opposition to import Danish workers.
REEL 2 Continues: Scottish opposition to arrival of English workers; reasons for strike, 1/1919; protective role of trade unions; presence of women workers in marine engineering; industrial conscription; political activity in Edinburgh; temperance movement; his political opinions during First World War; anti-German feeling.
REEL 3 Continues: work testing tanks, 1917; work on naval monitors; memories of Armistice Day in Hull, 11/11/1918; stopping of work on Armistice Day; attitudes towards US troops in GB, 1918; food shortages and black market. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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