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LOCOMOTIVE JOURNAL
FEBRUARY 1924
STRIKE ISSUE
A.S.L.E.&F. General Secretary Jack Bromley opening comments in the February 1924
Strike edition of the Locomotive Journal
During the strike, there were a number of engine drivers who made themselves available for work, these included (seven*) engine drivers belonging to A.S.L.E.F., and a much larger number of drivers from the N.U.R. members, and "Nons." totally over 45 driversOwing to there being to many Drivers and not enough Firemen, this caused a problem regarding the manning of the locomotives, the Southern Railway, reached an agreement with the N.U.R. to allow their drivers to be paired up with each other, with one of the drivers acting as a Fireman.Attempts were also made to get the available drivers to travel to Victoria, as the demand for conveyance to that place was the most pressing the drivers were obdurate. Trains arriving at Brighton were immediately dispatched back to the place of their departures.
* According to the figure recorded in the Newhaven Branch minute book
ALAN PENTNEY COLLECTION
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BRIGHTON 1924 STRIKE COMMITTEE
On the evening of Thursday 24th January, a conference was organised by the Strike
Committee of the Brighton Branch of A.S.L.E.F., and was held at the Brighton Labour
Institutional, in London Road, Brighton, The Branch Secretary, H. Beall addressed an
audience which included a larger number of the wives of the men on strike. He said, that the
strike would not have arisen if the finding of the Wages Board had been accepted.
A resolution had been passed by the Brighton Branch to the effect that they deplored the
actions of the N.U.R. drivers and firemen who were working other than their own turns, and
in some instances, excessive hours.
With a view to keeping the strikers off the streets, concerts were being held during the
evenings. The Brighton branch of A.S.L.E.F., decided that all the pickets were to be
withdrawn, as there was little prospect of trouble between the various sections.
THE 1924 ASLEF STRIKE
THREE BRIDGES BRANCH
A.S.L.E.&F. COLECTION
The 1924 London Central Strike Committee
Back Row L-R W. Reynolds (New Cross), C.C. Thompson (Staff), A. Randall (Nine Elms),
J. Langridge (Eastbourne).
Middle Row A.J. Taylor (King's Cross), G. Smith (Stratford), S. Worcester (Dorking).
Front Row W.J. Hardy (Paddington), J. Ryder Secretary (Plaistow),
W. Courts Chairman (Wilsden), J.T. Soundy (Bow).
On Sunday 20th January 1924 a 9 day national strike of A.S.L.E.F. took place over reductions of the wages and working conditions of Enginemen and Firemen imposed by the National Wages Board.
The "Machinery of Negotiation" with a Sectional Council
(now known as Company Council)
and Local Department Committees (L.D.C), came into force in June 1924.
As a result of this strike saw the formation of the A.S.L.E.F. Women’s Guild, with many
branch being set up around the country. These Women Guild's were mainly founded in
cities and large towns.
Extracted and adapted from
Newhaven Branch Meeting for January
Sunday Feb. 3rd 1924
Correspondence read and discussed.
Arising out of minutes of Dec. 30th 1923 re Bro. W. Smith report of J. Browning the N.U.R. Chairman awaiting an audience for a discussion on Shed matter presumably Shed representation was further discussed, when he expressed opinion concerning their desire for a meeting, was very much against having anything to do with them, in the view if their actions during the strike, which attitude was considered to have altered any tendency of this Branch to have met them.
Women Society
On Sunday 26th April 1925 saw the opening of the Brighton Branch of the A.S.L.E.F Women’s guild.
For more details regarding the Brighton & Horsham Women's Guild
please go to the sub page.
