100 Years Ago

8 JUNE 1924 The tube strike continued, despite the National Union of Railwaymen refusing to recognise the dispute. The tube

7 JUNE 1924 It was feared that the situation with the London tube strike was going to worsen. The question

6 JUNE 1924 The threat of an immediate national railway stoppage was removed by the decision of the Locomotive Society

5 JUNE 1924 Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, stated in the House of Commons that he would be in a

4 JUNE 1924 In the House of Lords, Viscount peel called the attention of the Government to a letter by

3 JUNE 1924 The King’s Birthday honours included a Baronetcy for Alexander Grant of Edinburgh and a Knighthood for the

2 JUNE 1924 Raymond Poincare, the French leader, resigned from office. Two thousand Merseyside bricklayers and masons came out on

1 JUNE 1924 Stanley Baldwin, the former Prime Minister, speaking to his constituents in Worcester said: “If I gauge the

31 MAY 1924 The full text is published of the Note addressed to the German Government by the Conference of

30 MAY 1924 The critical debate in the House of Commons on the Government’s unemployment resulted in the rejection of