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Description: | British civilian worked as engines machinist and union shop steward with Daimler Company in Coventry, GB, 1914-1923
REEL 1 Recollections of period as engines machinist and union shop steward with Daimler Company in Coventry, 1914-1919: employment as machinist with Daimler, 8/1914; membership of Amalgamated Society of Engineers; degree of union membership in Coventry; character of lodgings; pay and bonus system; government provision of houses for migrant workers; working hours; effect of Zeppelin raids; lack of free time.
REEL 2 Continues: commuting of workers by bicycle; marriage, 12/1914; recruitment of workers by Daimler; munitions factory in Coventry; industrial dispute at Daimler over introduction of 'dilutees' into factory; consequences of multiplicity of trade unions.
REEL 3 Continues: industrial dispute over Embargo Act introduced to prevent skilled workers' exploitation of labour shortages, 1917; demonstrations against food shortages and profiteering in Coventry, 1917; recognition of shop stewards by Daimler management.
REEL 4 Continues: background to election as shop steward; worker's participation in war effort; importance of strike for recognition of shop stewards; industrial disputes caused by change from war to peacetime production, 1918-1919.
REEL 5 Continues: moral conception of shop steward's role; fear of being corrupted by employers; effect of high wages at Daimler on workers' lives; payment of workers; financial losses incurred by shop stewards; war work carried out at Daimler.
REEL 6 Continues: development of religious and political objections to war; growing conflict between his attitude to war and his war work at Daimler; pressure at Daimler to attest to undertake military service and aftermath.
REEL 7 Continues: refusal to attend medical board at factory; unsuccessful attempt to have him called up for military service during Embargo Act industrial dispute, 1917; activities of fellow shop steward and conscientious objector; role of Quakers in aiding conscientious objectors escape military service.
REEL 8 Continues: anti-war rallies at Coventry baths; personalities who spoke at anti-war rallies; progress of anti-war movements in face of war propaganda; lack of impact of Russian Revolution on British workers; family's attitude to his union activities.
REEL 9 Continues: Aspects of period as engine machinist and shop steward at Daimler Company, 1919-1923: effects of lock-out of engineering workers by management at Daimler, 1922; return to his engine machinist on giving an assurance that he would no longer act as shop steward, 1923. Question of his attitude towards Second World War. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | O'Gallagher, Ciaran | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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