But then, " Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants " ( 1901 ) surprised everyone by saying that trade unions could be held liable for damages caused by industrial action.
22.
He also joined the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ( ASRS ), which he represented at the 1871 Trades Union Congress ( TUC ), and in 1873 he became a full-time organiser for the union, based in Sheffield.
23.
In 1901 the Taff Vale Railway Company successfully sued the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, a trades union, for damages due to losses accrued during a general election of 1906, to the Trade Disputes Act 1906, guaranteeing union immunity from damages.
24.
He joined the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) and the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ( ASRS ); he subsequently moved to Sheffield and led the ASRS branch at Sheffield Midland railway station, where he was prominent in the railway strike of 1911.
25.
The NUR was an industrial union founded in 1913 by the merger of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ( founded 1872 ), the United Pointsmen and Signalmen's Society ( founded 1880 ) and the General Railway Workers'Union ( founded 1889 ).
26.
The footplate staff ( as drivers and fireman were known ) were unionised from the 19th century and in the Uk were generally in the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ( later ASLEF ) whilst other shed staff tended to be in the National Union of Railwaymen.
27.
The union's origins lay in the " National Cokemen and Surface Workers'Union ", which was formed by the merger of the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Cokemen and Labourers Union, and the Lancashire Cokemen and Labourers and Local Railway Servants Union in 1911.
28.
In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R . Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates.
29.
His expertise led to him to serve on the Royal Commission on Accidents to Railway Servant ( 1899 ), the Vice-Regal Commission on Irish Railways ( 1906 ), the Royal Commission of Enquiry into Canadian Railways ( 1916 ), the Royal Commission on South Rhodesian Railways ( 1918 ).
30.
In the Railway Servants'case, the High Court held that the doctrine worked both ways, that is, it held that the states were also immune from Commonwealth laws, in finding that a trade union representing employees of the Government of New South Wales could not be registered under federal industrial relations legislation.
