1913 Lockout by Josh Doran

James Larkin was involved in the 1913 lockout. He organised the strikes and set up unions. Workers went on strike because they were working for too long and they were not getting paid enough. 20,000 people went on strike. Factory owners brought in scabs to take their jobs. On the forth of December 2013,sixth class in St Laurence O’Tooles C.B.S went down to Merchant Road. We went down because it was the one hundred year anniversary of people being evicted from their homes. When we were there we saw a mural painted from a photograph that was taken that day. The artist was there and he told us about the mural. Joe from the East Wall History Society gave us the talk. Only two families from the road were not evicted because they were too sick. They were later evicted in the new year.