At the risk of going on and on about Wapping here is some other info for the Aussie readers..
The crisis of the 1889 dock strike was reached at the beginning of September and without more money it seemed that the strike could not continue. Then, out of the blue, money began to pour in from Australia. Donations were sent by the wharf labourers of BRISBANE and then by almost every Australian trade union. About £30,000 in all was sent. The money ensured that the dockers could hold out and made the dock companies more disposed to negotiate. Thanks to the Australian donation, the dock strike ended in victory after both sides agreed a settlement at the Mansion House talks.
Source: http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.77/chapterId/1863/The-Great-Dock-Strike-of-1889.html
Captain Cook lived down the road! He was originally sacked from his job as an assistant in a haberdashers shop in Whitby (North Yorkshire), and signed up as an apprentice on the merchant ship of Captain John Walker. He was set to work on the regular runs of the merchantman Freelove as it hauled coal from Whitby to Wapping. http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/cook.htm
- he is believed to have had lodgings at the Bell Alehouse near Execution Dock in Wapping see http://pages.quicksilver.net.nz/jcr/~cookbio1.html
- he married a girl from Wapping (Elizabeth Batts) http://www.captaincooksociety.com/ccsu418.htm
- he is belived to have learnt his humanitarian approach (no beatings and preventing scruvy) from the Quakers in Wapping http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/cook.htm
Also, in 1986, Rupert Murdoch moved to introduce electronic production processes to his newspapers in Australia, Britain and United States, placing a greater workload on journalists and reducing staff overall. In England, the move aroused the anger of the print unions resulting in a long and often violent dispute fought in London's docklands area of Wapping, where Murdoch had secretly installed the very latest electronic newspaper publishing factory in an old warehouse. 5000 people lost their jobs in this bitter dispute that was played out in Wapping. Union opposition in Australia caved in after the Wapping battle and now most newspapers around the world are produced by this method.
Technically, Rupert Murdoch is actually no longer an Australian, as he surrendered his Australian citizenship and became an American citizen in order to further his business interests in the US.
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