“…1913 1880-1914 "Transport Workers Strike, Dublin, 1913" [T0048.jpg], 1913 There were a number of strikes in Dublin in 1913 affecting the dockers, building trades, clerks and carters all involving the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, led by Jim Larkin. In August 1913 the anti-union owner of the Irish Independent newspaper, William Martin Murphy, sacked all the union members on his staff. …”

“…Marion Duggan was writing on behalf of the Irish Women Workers' Union, then housed in Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. Duggan was a law graduate (the letters following her signature are LL.B. …”