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Eldon S treet, Vauxhall, 1910 (picture from Carl Fletcher)
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JANUARY 2011
James Sexton says RuskinCollege (of which he is now
a governor) will producefuture labour leadership
Hawarden Bridge steelworksre-opens after successful 10-
month strike.
Sydney Street siege in EastLondon sparks nationwideparanoia about anarchists
London newspaper saysLiverpool is the most activecentre of anarchism in the
provinces
Alleged Liverpool sightings of 'Peter the
Painter' (Jewish anarchistSidney Street suspect)
2,500 boiler-scalers strikefor wage increase andreduced hours. Police
prevent picketingStriking scalers picket Allan
Line and Langton Dock
Employers of scalers offer10% wage increase and
arbitration, which scalersrefuse
Carters' union membership inBirkenhead increased as wage
increase granted
Board of Trade officialarrives Liverpool to mediate
in scalers strike
Reported that seamen’s strikelikely to disrupt the King's
Coronation in June
Boiler-scalers’ strike settledwith wage increase and no
victimisation
Shop Assistants Unionsoiree at Kings Cafe to
boost women’s membership
Liverpool shopkeepers willgive staff 60 hour week and
a half day offMeeting of Anti-Vivisection
Society at Adelphi
Liverpool Anti-SweatingLeague hold Annual Meeting
at Common Hall
Public Holiday
Also in this month...Liverpool Printing Trades Federation mass meeting demands 48-hour week (7th)Rev Herbert Dunnico says National Service League is a device to introduce conscription (26th)Liverpool Association of Womens' Trade Unions formed
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Ragged Trousered Philanthropist s at work (Artwork by Alan Murray)
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FEBRUARY 2011
Special Labour Partyconference votes toorganise nationally
not just in Parliament
Robert Tressell (Noonan),author of 'Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists', dies inRoyal Infirmary
Ramsay MacDonald electedchairman of Labour Party
Union official warns thatLondon printers' strike mayspread across the country
National Union of WomenWorkers local branchmembership up from
273 to 312
Labour RepresentationCommittee says new PoorLaw order 'will drive manymore into the workhouse'
James Clarke, black docker,saves a man from drowning
in Collingwood Dock
University studentsdemonstrate: 'Hands off St
George's Hall'
Wallasey Carters Uniondemand wage increase and
shorter hours (employersconcede on 20th)
Trades Council celebratesits 63rd anniversary
First repertory theatreseason: opens with J
Galsworthy's Strife (aboutstrike at a tin-plate works)
Edward Whitley, Labour citycouncillor (Edge Hill), resigns
from ill-health. WR Blair tocontest by-election
Reported that Women’sFreedom League plans
'census parties' to avoidbeing counted in the census
Long debate in Parliamenton 'Akbar Inquiry' report
(see article page 30)
Wallasey carters threatenstrike to force reinstatementof those dismissed following
wage settlement
200 refractory heating boysat Cammell Lairds walk outdemanding wage increase
Union Buttons (left to right)Seamen, Stewards, Dockers,
Carters, Railworkers
Also in this month...Board of Trade declines to set up a Conciliation Board for the shipping industry (17th)James Sexton wins libel action over pamphlet accusing him of assisting the prosecution ofJim Larkin (17th/18th)
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Casual labour : South End dockers wait for a day's work. Many wear the union badge or 'button'
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MARCH 2011
300 boy rivet-beaters atCammell Lairds strike
(one day)
Print unions and employersagree to reduce working
week to 51 hours
300 Wallasey carters strike.Picket of Kings Theatre in
Seacombe21st anniversary of 'the
great dock strike' (1890)
Striking Wallasey carters rally at Seacombe,
clash with police. Mayoroffers to mediate
Navvies building the newGladstone dock strike for
wage increase, form StrikeCommittee next day
9 Wallasey carters taken to court for 'quitting
employment'. Strike ends thatevening and case dropped
200 platers helpers atTranmere Bay strike for wage
parity with other regions
20 women workers atMayfield Sugar Works,
Falkner Street, strike for wages to be doubled
Brussels paper reportsInternational Federation of
Seamen plans internationalstrike action
100 West African seamenstrike as Elder Dempster
only pay them half thewages of white seamen
Suffragette protester greetsSecretary for War (Haldane)at Lime Street with 'Votes for
Women' placard50,000-strong United Irish
League rally at Hippodrome
Southport painters threatenstrike action from 1 April if
conditions not improved
Bonar Law wins Bootle Parliamentary by-
election for Tories. One voteis cast by a woman
Black seamen refuse partialwage increase. Elder
Dempster recruit white crewto replace them
Trades Council informedthat unskilled workers aredoing skilled work on the
Liver Building
Suffragette meeting atHardman Hall highlights
injustice of 'the census andno vote'
Parcel delivery drivers strikeand win reinstatement oftheir boy assistants who
demand higher wages
Sandon Studios Societyholds debate on post-
impressionist art
British SummerTime begins
Also in this month...Sandon Studios Society hold modern art exhibition at Bluecoat (4th till end of month)Navvies strike settled with demands partially met. All have joined Navvies Union (10th)Suffragette magazine Votes for Women discusses plans to defy the census (30th)
First InternationalWomen’s Day
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The 1911 tram map of Liverpool - The thick blue line marks the city boundary
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APRIL 2011
Suffragettes on St George’s Plateau (1908)
Suffragettes completecensus form with one male
name and 'no other personsbut many women'
W B Yeats and LadyGregory direct Dublin Abbey
Theatre players at Kellys Theatre
Four Birkenhead wardssupport votes for women but 'no quorum' prevents
council voteCity Council declares by-
election in Edge Hill
Union official wins damages claim against
employer arising fromJanuary scalers' dispute
30 Mersey railway conductors strike for
a day and demonstrate atCentral Station
50 Mersey railwayconductors walk out again
as talks unproductive
Election meeting of WilliamBlair, Labour candidate in
Edge Hill council by-election
Railway Clerks Associationwins pay increases for its
members
Announced that Daily Herald(started as London printers'strike sheet) will be a daily
Labour paper
Keir Hardie at Liverpool Peace Society
denounces church supportfor Territorial parades
Edge Hill Council by-election. Conservatives
regain from Labour
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Also in this month...50% of gasworkers are now in the National Union of Gasworkers and General Labourers (10th)Chief Officer Lovelock of Heswall Reformatory School (Akbar) resigns after report critical ofmaltreatment of boys (11th)
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The Liver Building opened 19 July 191 1 - The Birds were unfinished (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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MAY 2011
Feeder marches from Northand South docks to major
transport workers' rally on StGeorge's Plateau
Liverpool and District ChurchSocialist League Annual
Meeting at Common Hall
Labour officials criticiseState Insurance plans as
employee contributions willbe too high
Women's EnfranchisementBill gets Commons second
reading but will not become law
Reported that internationalseamen’s strike set for 29thby secret meeting last week
Trades Council notes RoyalLiver paid extra £20,000 to
meet union rates on Liver Building
Transport WorkersFederation Secretary visits
Liverpool to organise demoand first national conference
Seamen’s union GeneralSecretary complains
Shipping Federation will notmeet union delegates
Railway Clerks' AssociationAnnual Conference inLiverpool calls for rail
nationalisation
Adele Pankhurst tellssuffragette meeting there
will be another Londondemo soon
Meeting of PeacePropaganda in Byrom Hall.Resolution against war and
increasing armaments
Meeting of sailors, firemen, dockers at St
Martin’s Hall welcomesstriking African seamen
Seamen's union CanningPlace office displays notice:
"Sailors and Firemen -watch for the signal"
300 platers helpers atCammell Lairds strike for
wage increase
Striking platers at CammellLairds are joined on strike by
590 general labourersCammell Lairds crane-
drivers strike
Public Holiday
Public Holiday
Also in this month...Co-operative Union reports that Liverpool has 13,000 members (17th)Havelock Wilson calls on shipowners to set up conciliation boards (23rd)Carters Union warn members not to work with carters recruited through Labour Exchange (26th)
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Strike Committee leader T om Mann addressed several meetings a day through the summer (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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JUNE 2011
Transport WorkersFederation holds first Annual
Conference at EngineersHall (3 days)
International Seamen’sStrike Committee begins 3-day meeting in London
200 Jewish cabinet-makersare locked out over demand
for increased wages and job security
Coal porters of Southamptonstrike and hold up the White
Star’s Olympic
Women Clerks Associationhold organising meeting in
Hardman Hall
Sailors and firemen resolvenot to go and break a strike
in Southampton
RMS Baltic arrivesLiverpool. Crew do not sign
on for next voyage,demanding wage increase
Havelock Wilson writes toUK Shipowners Association
with last-minute plea to avoid strike
Tom Mann arrives in Liverpoolto lead the seamen’s strikewith poster "War Declared:
We Strike for Liberty"
Seamen’s strike begins as500 seamen refuse to sign
on. Mass meetings inLiverpool and London
Several big shipping firmsconcede wage increases
Strike leaders turn attentionto smaller firms. Dockers are
also in state of unrest
250 women take special trainfrom Liverpool to join 40,000-
strong women’s 5-mile'Coronation' suffrage march
Carters meeting at StMartin's Hall expresses
support for seamen
Stewards on four ships jointhe strike of
sailors and firemen
Dockers refuse to work onships where owners have
not conceded. Carters do the same
4,000 rally at St George's.All Shipping Federationseamen are called out.
Dockers and carters support
Elder Dempster charter depotship Friesland for 3 weeks to
supply non-union labour
50 dockers strike at BramleyMoore dock in support of
seamen and firemen(successful after two days)
Coronation of King George V.Docks all quiet
Report that the strike hasspread to Dublin and Hull.
CPR Line concedes strikers' demands
Seamen and stewards agreewage increase and unionrecognition with Cunard,
White Star and Allan Lines
90 tailors and tailoressesstrike (successfully) at Joseph
Davies', Russell Street. Girlsplan to form a union
Dockers present their owndemands for unionrecognition. 2,000
coalheavers also strike
Dockers defy StrikeCommittee advice and insist
on recognition and payment of union rates
George Milligan (secretaryof North End NUDL) joins
Strike Committee as dockers stay out
Also in this month...Cabinetmakers locked out over demand to end piecework system (10th)Dockers refuse to unload Pointer (from Glasgow) until striking crew reinstated (18th)Black sailors and firemen join crew of Elder Dempster ship Aro on strike (19th)
Banner of North End dockers
(NUDL No 12 Branch)
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Move over W G Grace - young striker keep s a straight bat (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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JULY 2011
Strike Committee meetsNorth End dockers, agrees
to include their demands in negotiations
Rally of 5,000 on StGeorge's Plateau hears that
the largest rail unionsupports the strike
Return to work at thoseshipping companies where
union is now recognised
2,000 Hawarden Bridgesteelworkers strike over
employment of non-unionlabour (resolved after a week)
Tugboatmen return to workafter four-day strike
Agents try to recruit strike-breakers for London
but no one volunteers
200 dockers’ delegates meetat Engineers Hall. Manifesto
calls for 'loyalty and solidarity'Coasting ship owners agree
to raise minimum wage
Tobacco warehousemen win wage increases after
five-day strike
Trades Council addressed byTom Mann who calls for
support for transport strike
150 strike at Dock Board'swool warehouse (succeed
after one week)
Dockers’ union convenesmeeting of cotton porters.
Many join the union
Rally at St George's Plateau.Tom Mann thanks public,press and police for 'the
goodwill shown towards us’
250 girls at Walton rubber works strike
for wage increase (succeed after three days)
700 men at Silcocks oil millsstrike for wage increase
(succeed after 2 days)
Workers at Fairrie & Cosugar refinery on Vauxhall
Road strike and win instant wage increase
500 tram workers holdgrievance meeting. 300
declare ready to join a union
Strike at Dock Boardgrainhouses in Liverpool
and Birkenhead successful
700 Skelmersdale minersstrike over employment of
non-union labour (one week)
Shipping companies set upcommittee to
meet with unions
Sexton presents demands atfirst meeting of
shipowners and unions
Workers at MacFie sugarrefinery strike
for wage increase
International MinersCongress calls for 8-hourday and two weeks paid
holiday a yearStrike settled at North Shore
flour mills
900 out of 1600 tramworkers now belong
to a new union
Second meeting betweenshipowners and unions
appoints sub-committee todraw up agreement
Also in this month...Strike Committee forms a District Council of National Transport Workers Federation (13th)Goods porters at Lancs and Yorks North Docks station demand wage increase and reduced hours1000 workers at six oil mills strike for wage increase (31st)
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The 'Monster demonstration' at S t George's Plateau on 13 August (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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AUGUST 2011
Stanhope Street meeting foruniting all brewery workers inone union ('trade union ale')
Transport WorkersFederation organises large
meeting of Garston dockers
'White Book’ agreementbetween shipowners and
unions signed, effective immediately
Tugboatmen win wageincrease following last
month's strike
1,200 Lancs and Yorks railgoods porters strike at
North Docks depot and picket other stations
Mass meeting of tram workers at
Litherland tram station
Brunswick Dock goods porters (Cheshire
Lines) strike. Pickets stopgoods at Lime Street
3,500 now on strike atgoods stations. Carters and
shunters refuse to cross picket lines
Engine-drivers refuse to takeimported scabs to North
Docks station. Birkenheadgoods yards closed
400 troops arrive Seaforthbarracks. Extra police arrivefrom Leeds and Birmingham
Many shop assistants told totake a week's holiday.
St John’s Gardens occupied by police
Board of Trade officialarrives Liverpool to consult
with Lord Mayor
Bloody Sunday: 80,000-strong demonstration
attacked by police on StGeorge's Plateau
Lockout of all cargo work ondocks. Strike committee
declares general transportstrike from next day
Five prison vans attacked.Soldiers shoot dead
Michael Prendergast and John Sutcliffe
Rail union officials go fromLiverpool meeting to London.
Strike committee calls outtram workers from midnight
Rail unions meet at Board ofTrade, reject offer of Royal
Commission and callnational rail strike
Rail talks continue. Strikingtram workers parade.
Electric lighting in city goesout. No street-cleaning
Rail company owners jointalks. Rail strike settled with
reinstatement and Railway Commission
Funeral of MichaelPrendergast (shot on 15th) at
Catholic cemetery. 250 Protestants attend
Strike Committee calls for no return to work
until tram workers reinstated
More tram workersreinstated (not all). Railway
Commission opensHMS Antrim leaves Mersey,
more troops leave the city
General return to work. 180tram workers reinstated.
First troops withdraw
Shipowners meeting withunions. Mass meeting in
Bootle agrees return to work
City Council agrees toreinstate tram workers 'asand when required'. Strike
declared over
Rally to support tram workers.Tom Mann goes to London to
call for strike in support
Railwaymen return to work.Tom Mann tells meeting: "weare on the eve of a complete
and glorious victory."
Newsboys strike
Magistrates told Riot Actwas read ten times and
4,142 special constablesenrolled for strike-breaking
Inquests on MichaelPrendergast and John
Sutcliffe (shot by soldiers).Verdict: 'justifiable homicide'
Public Holiday
Also in this month...Strike Committee issues permits for transport of essential goodsPolice insist that the film of Bloody Sunday be edited to remove their attacks on the crowd (14th)'Don't Shoot' leaflet of stonemason Fred Bower urges soldiers not to fire on striking workers
First edition ofTransport Workers’paper (8th)
HMS Antrim on the Mersey (18th to 27th)
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Convoys with police and milit ary escort were a daily sight in August (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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SEPTEMBER 2011
First meeting of newTransport Workers Council
regards tram dispute as still not settled
5,000-strong East Londonrally remembers those 'killedin the interests of capitalism'
in Liverpool and LlanelliLiverpool stations still full of
goods awaiting transport
TUC conference deploresuse of military in trade
disputes
United Irish League urgesHome Office clemency
towards those convicted ofstrike disorders
TUC salutes 'magnificentefforts' of transport and
women workers in recentdisputes
6,000 demonstrate againstTram Committee's failure toreinstate over 130 workers
'Schoolboy strikes' atelementary school
Trades Council urgesdonations for locked-out
tram workers
50-60 Cammell Lairdsdrillers strike against
piecework system
Rev H D Roberts at HopeStreet church advocates
nationalising railways
Meeting at St Martin's Hallprotests 'odiously savage'
police actions on 'Red RiotSunday' (13 Aug)
National League for theBlind rally on St George'sPlateau calls for free tram
transport for blind
Walker Art Gallery autumnexhibition of modern art (till
Jan 1912). Strike backlogholds up some exhibits
Transport Workers Councilcomplains that 80 tram
workers still not reinstated
Lancs and Yorks railwayclerical workers meet to
protest at low level of wages
Teachers picket a Liverpoolhotel for holding interviewsto replace striking teachers
on Isle of Man
Also in this month...Anti-Sweating League organises 500 shop workers into unionFirst statutory meeting of Liverpool Repertory Theatre company (25th)Railway Commission takes evidence from employers and unions
"They don't turn to theauthorities and ask for convoy
which they could get. OurStrike Committee permit is of
greater value" - Tom Mann
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Reinst ating the sacked 250 tram workers was a major issue through the autumn (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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OCTOBER 2011
LNWR announce wageincreases. Unions continue
to demand recognition
Arthur Bulley's Council electionleaflet. There was a Con-Lib pact 'toavoid any public excitement'. Labour contested 19 out of 35 wards
Shop Assistants Unionconference calls for longer
breaks in working day
Meeting at YMCA in supportof trade unionism among
women workers
Tom Mann addresses TailorsTrade Union at Daulby Hall,denounces sweating system
City cllr Austin Harford saysBirmingham police behaved
like 'bashi-bazouks' onBloody Sunday
James Sexton letter defendshis description in Council of
police as 'uniformed hooligans'Post and telegraph workers’
rally demands wage increase
Garston dockers accept 10to 25% wage increase from
rail company
First meeting of dockers andshipowners under the 'White
Book’ agreement
Tom Mann addressesHardman Hall meeting ofNational Union of Clerks
H M Hyndman addressesSDP meeting at Sun Hall, says
liberalism is 'the handmaid ofthe capitalist classes'
Ship Stewards unionmembership has increased
from 4,000 to 10,000
Labour election rally atLiverpool stadium. Dockersunion membership up from
9,000 to 33,000
Railway Commission reportdoes not recommend
union recognition
Keir Hardie addressesIndependent Labour Party
rally at Sun Hall
J M Labouchere, Labour cityauditor, criticises financial
running of Council
'Three cheers for solidarity'disrupt Conservative election
meeting in Kensington
James Sexton calls forinquiry into police brutality
on 13 AugustLabour open-air election
meeting in Garston
Election meeting of Fred Bower (Labour and
Socialist, Dingle)
Liverpool Railway JointStrike Committee 'profoundly
disappointed' with RailwayCommission report
Tom Mann and Sextonaddress 1,000 at Picton Hall
election meeting
British SummerTime ends
Also in this month...Prof Benjamin Moore disputes medical officer's view that the strike increased city's death rateStar Theatre on Williamson Square will open as Liverpool Playhouse next monthCouncil workers protest at Health committee delay in dealing with August pay demands (20th)
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X marks the spot - John Sutcliffe was shot dead here by soldiers on 15 August (picture from Bluecoat Press)
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NOVEMBER 2011
Council elections: Labourgain 6 seats in Liverpool, 2
in Birkenhead Tom Mann leaves Liverpool
Rail unions decide to ballotmembership by 4 December
on Commission report andpossible strike action
Liverpool Railway JointStrike Committee rejects
Railway Commission reportLNWR makes concessions
to carters over hours of work
Christabel Pankhurst sayssuffragettes will act against
Manhood Suffrage Bill
City council meeting.enlivened by Labour group
(now 7 strong)
Lancs and Yorks railannounce wage increases
for lower-paid
Star theatre re-opens asLiverpool Playhouse, staging
The Admirable Crichton(J M Barrie)
Trades Council notes that 40tram workers are still
not reinstated
Trades Council calls onLabour Party to campaignfor full voting rights for all
men and women
Trades Council delegatewins by-election, becomes
Birkenhead's 5th Labour councillor
Rail unions win all 42 seatson the new Lancs and Yorks
rail conciliation board
Liverpool branch of General Railway Workers
Union rejects RailwayCommission report
Playhouse theatre stages'Justice' (J Galsworthy) -
'fascinating and yet terriblydepressing'
70 electricians strike atCammell Lairds
Carters and scavengersdemand union rates of pay
from City CouncilWomen’s suffrage rally in
Sun Hall
Liverpool women march inbig London suffragette demo
where 223 arrested
Liverpool suffragette Patricia Woodlock jailed 21
days for damage on Londonmarch (21st)
LiverpoolPlayhouseopens(11th)
Also in this month...Suffragette play 'Outlawed' performed at Royal Court Rail companies announce several wage increases to head off more strikes 300-400 men and women of Jewish Tailors Union strike (3 weeks)
The funeral of Michael Prendergast, shot
by soldiers on 15 August
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Igniting the spirit - Tom Mann catches up with a modern-day politician while Nick Clegg clutches at the toga-tails of David Cameron (Original artwork from John O'Neill)
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DECEMBER 2011
Rail employers agree tomeet unions in London
2,000 carters at St Martin’sHall vote for strike action
Cammell Lairds electriciansresume work after 10-day
strike
Report lists medicalcomplaints of Liverpool
telephone girls (nervousbreakdowns, fainting fits)
Playhouse says appointmentof Charles Brookfield as
examiner of plays discreditscensorship laws
Liverpool author applies tocourt for return of play scripts
not returned by the censors
Coal carters meet withemployers and resolve
dispute
Barmen and managersresolve to organise
a trade union800 short carters strike for
better wages and conditions
Second day of strike by 400bargemen on Leeds-
Liverpool canal
Stonemasons union resolves to try to unite 23
building unionsCarters dispute with city
council is settled
Short carters disputetemporarily resolved
till next month
Telephone employeesprotest that January
takeover by Post Office willreduce wages
Transport unions order boycott of Dundee steamers
at other ports including Liverpool
Liverpool railway goodsworkers plan to form new
union in New Year
Liverpool trade expected tobe reduced by lock-out at
Lancashire millsG B Shaw gives lecture at
Walker Art Gallery
Public Holiday Public Holiday
Also in this month...Rail dispute settled, still without full union recognition (result of strike ballot is notpublished) (11th)Miners are set to issue national strike ballot in campaign for minimum wage
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