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Dockworkers and port employers in British Columbia resumed talks on Saturday after a brief hiatus, assisted by federal mediators. The strike by member...

A huge and powerful strike of British dockers against low pay, unsafe conditions and casual, precarious employment contracts which, with international solidarity, won nearly all its demands and marked a turning point in UK working class history.

A BUSY Southampton road is to be closed for six weeks to allow work to paint a bridge. Thomas Lewis Way is to be closed from 8pm to 5am from May 4 for up to six weeks. The road will be closed between its junctions with Dukes Road and St Denys Road, A3035. The closure is to allow work to paint the overhead footbridge, which means the footbridge will also be fully closed to the public. The bridge will be closed for a further two weeks so that the ramps can be painted, but Thomas Lewis W...

From the Archives, 1951: PM unbowed as High Court holds “Red Bill” invalid We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss From the Archives, 1951: PM unbowed as High Court holds “Red Bill” invalid 70 years ago, the High Court held that the Federal Parliament’s attempt to ban the Communist Party of Australia was unconstitutional. But this was not the end of the fight, declared Robert Menzies. By Staff reporter Save Normal text si...

THOMAS Lewis was born in St Mary’s in 1873, the son of John Lewis a dock worker from Jersey and the family lived in a shared house at 24 Melbourne Street when he was a boy. The house was shared with the family of William Lewis who was a clockmaker. It was no surprise therefore that at the age of eleven Tommy became an apprentice watchmaker. From an early age Tommy was involved in the emergent local and national Labour movement. In 1901 he became Southampton’s first Labour Party coun...