165: How Railway and Dockyard workers defied an Empire by Peter Rigney

How Railway and Dockyard workers defied an Empire: The Irish Mulitions Embargo of 1920 by Peter Rigney Hamar Greenwod, chief secretary for ireland was not noted for telling the truth, but he got it right in May 1920 when he told his cabinet colleagues "they (the IRA) are mobile but our troops are glued to the ground" This situation was due to the action of thousands of irish railwaymen and dockers who refused to convey armed troops or munitions of war for much of 1920. This campaign of civic resistance has up to now been neglected by most mainstream historians. In this talk historian and former ICTU official Peter Rigney will outline the origins, progress and effects of this dispute.