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This photograph shows the Shipping Federation's depot ship ‘Lady Jocelyn’, during the Transport and Dockers Strike of 1911, showing free labour workers or ‘blacklegs’ waiting to be drafted into the docks, and accompanied by a police escort. The ship was used by the Federation for housing strike-breakers and shipping them to wherever they were needed.

The Great London Dock Strike of 1911 spread to other ports and it was in Liverpool that the strike took hold and spread to other transport workers.

This image is part of the archive of the Shipping Federation held at the MRC. The Centre holds mainly national records (rather than local branches) of the unions and therefore many of the photographs and images held at the MRC show national events rather than regional ones. Ref: MSS.367/TSF/12/4/1

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