Depth study 5 Trade Unions #2

1. Overcrowding in Dublin was overwhelming. 25000 families lived in just _____ tenements (4, 8)
5. The Union that Larkin established in Dublin, inspired by his relative success in Belfast (the acronym!) (5)
6. The percentage of housing in Dublin that was declared unfit for human habitation (8)

2. Something that Larkin managed to overcome during the Belfast Strike to encourage solidarity (which had previously caused significant rifts) (12)
3. The percentage of people in Dublin who lived in poverty (5)
4. An Irish immigrant Docker from Liverpool who arrives in Ireland and quickly becomes an advocate for trade unionism (he sympathised with workers) (5, 6)
7. The name of a catastrophic housing collapse that occurred in Dublin in 1913, illustrating just how bad the living conditions in Dublin were. (6, 6)

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