Top stories in this week's magazine

Thursday, 2 August 2007

Best of Tribune History on this website

Strike of the month
Chocolate workers taste victory - 1890
The first general strike - 1842
Hairdressers down scissors - 1918

Coming soon - Great London Dock Strike - 1889

Old Statesmen/Old Stateswomen
P C Hoffman – shopworkers' union official who campaigned against compulsory living-in.
Mary Macarthur - founder of the National Federation of Women Workers
Robert Applegarth - A very Victorian trade union leader
Will Crooks - dockers' leader and early Labour MP
Woodrow Wyatt - Labour MP turned arch-Thatcherite

Coming soon - John Arnott - Chartist activist and poet

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