Dockers at the port of Manchester were agitating for a wage increase of 1s a day to compensate for increasing prices of food. At a meeting of the dockers Union,a resolution was passed authorizing the district secretary to make an application for the advance.
The minion rate of pay at the time was 5s per day and 7s and 6d per night
A deputy Salford coroner heard the case of a Pendleton women who was burnt to death.The women, he was told, was a weekend drinker and had gone to a friends house for a christening of a child where she drank stout and whisky and fell on the fire.
The owner of the house had fallen asleep and did not know that the women , forty seven year old Winifred Babcock had fallen.She was taken to hospital where she died of her burns. A verdict of accidental death was recorded.
There was good news from the high seas as it was reported that the large German cruiser the Blucher had been sunk with two other ships seriously damaged although able to return to German ports.
One hundred and twenty three survivors out of a crew of over eight hundred had been rescued.
Thoughts in Manchester were turning to how the city could be protected in the event of an air raid. An airship could reach the city in eight minutes once it crossed the East Coast and it was suggested that Manchester should purchase two aero planes stationing them on the northern and southern sides of the city at a cost estimated at two thousand pounds.
The four Manchester battalions stationed at Morecambe were said to be improving in efficiency although there was disquiet about the amounts being charged for a Saturday to Sunday night ticket for the troops to return to Manchester.
Two members of the battalion meanwhile had rescued a young girl who had fallen into the water from the promenade.
