{"id":10853,"date":"2015-03-22T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2015-03-22T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:00:45","slug":"solving-dock-worker-troubles-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/solving-dock-worker-troubles-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLVING DOCK WORKER TROUBLES IN 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><i>Monday, March 22, 1915<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In billets, Rue\u00a0du Quesne<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cNo work. Battn. resting.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cA most ingenious way out of the docker troubles in Liverpool has been found. \u00a0Two thousand union dockers are to be enlisted as the First Dock Battalion of the Liverpool Regiment for home service. \u00a0They will wear khaki overalls, and will be under command of the Earl of Derby. \u00a0The Government guarantees a minimum wage of 35 shillings a week. \u00a0Both employers and employees have agreed to the scheme, which places the loading and unloading of war supplies directly under the control of the War Office. \u00a0Soldiers cannot strike when asked to work overtime. \u00a0The delay in forwarding military stores has very seriously affected the efficiency of the British army in France.\u201d[2]<\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 W<em>ar Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, March 22, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089702.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089702.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWar Summary,\u201d The Globe 1844-1936, Toronto, Ontario, Thursday, April 1, 1915, pg. 2, col. 2.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 22, 1915 In billets, Rue\u00a0du Quesne The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cNo work. Battn. resting.\u201d\u00a0[1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0\u201cA most ingenious way out of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}