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1 After 1910 the workers ' movement regathered momentum , and from 1912 the country was hit by wave upon wave of strikes , ever more political in motivation and ever more directly under Bolshevik leadership , culminating in a general strike in St Petersburg on the very eve of the war .
2 In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’
3 In 1894 the Ladies ' National Association , veterans of the repeal movement , mounted a campaign to amend the 1885 act to criminalize incest .
4 In 1610–11 the Hospital , and in 1612 the Clothworkers ' Company , decided to obtain a comprehensive survey of their London estates .
5 In 1957 a girls ' secondary modern was opened , sharing a large site but not much else either with the boys ' secondary modern or ( still less ) with the Grammar School .
6 The idea re-emerged in 1972 but was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under .
7 Central heating was again ( finally ? ) dropped , as too expensive , but at least in 1964 the Ladies ' exposed stairway was rebuilt with a covered staircase , and a new trolley room constructed under .
8 The first married female guardian was elected in 1881 and in 1908 a Women 's Local Government Society survey of 837 female Guardians showed 405 to be married .
9 In 1981 the Readers ' Services Division of the National Library of Scotland conducted a Call-slip analysis and book condition survey .
10 Subscriptions increased rapidly throughout the inflation-sick 1970's , so much so that in 1970 the men 's subscription had been only £28 but by 1980 was £126.50 + V.A.T. ( In 1960 it was £14 and today ( 1986 ) is £165 + V.A.T. ) .
11 In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ .
12 In 1855 the partners ' output of manufactured iron exceeded 120,000 tons ; they employed 4,000 people and consumed 600,000 tons of coal .
13 In 1953 the Men 's Fireside , now led for several years by Dr Mathews , came into being .
14 In 1901 the Congregationalists ' Western and Hackney Colleges had only fourteen and twenty-one students respectively while the Baptists ' Nottingham and Bristol colleges had only eleven and twenty-one .
15 Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ .
16 In 1854 a contractors ' consortium , in which the Belgian contractors Parent & Schaecken joined Thomas Brassey [ q.v. ] and Buddicom , undertook to build the Bellegarde tunnel , two-and-a-half-miles long , for the Lyon–Geneva railway , and in 1860 Buddicom and Brassey undertook the conversion of the Rouen to Dieppe railway from single to double track .
17 Its early locomotives were unreliable , and in 1827 the owners ' committee authorized Hackworth to build a new one to his own design .
18 In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting .
19 During 1987 a women 's household production network ( in fact inspired and organized by a foreign worker ) also began to produce pickled vegetables for retail in grocery stores in the West Bank , to displace Israeli produce .
20 Whatever the truth may be , it seems certain that for the decade 1900 to 1910 the Sailors ' and Firemen 's Union had little impact upon the living standards of its members on British ships .
21 Prior to 1968 the veterans ' organisation was called ‘ Fighters for Freedom' ’ which was really an umbrella organisation .
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