On this day: Poplar 100

First meeting of Poplar Borough Council since the councillors’ release from prison; reappoints committees, enters minutes of prison meetings into the record; thanks supporters. ow.ly/8ezy30rqDS7 #otd

Prime Minister David Lloyd George makes a statement to parliament on the government’s proposals to address unemployment. ow.ly/iV6J30rqDS6 #otd

Representatives of London borough councils meet at the Ministry of Health and agree a new system of financing under which poorer boroughs will receive the most relief. ow.ly/5fmm30rqDS5 #otd

London County Council meeting discusses the Poplar precepts, reform of the rating system and equalisation of the rates. ow.ly/GQIx30rqDS4 #otd

Conference to discuss reforming London’s rating system agrees a proposal that will form the basis of legislation. ow.ly/QnKF30rqDS3 #otd

‘Monster’ demonstration in Victoria Park welcomes Poplar’s triumphant councillors home from prison, where they had spent six weeks for refusing to levy a portion of the rates that their impoverished borough could not afford. ow.ly/Ik5W30rqDS2 #otd

Labour Party representatives meet Minister of Labour Macnamara to discuss unemployment. ow.ly/4u7q30rqDS1 #otd

John Scurr tells Poplar’s victorious campaigners that ‘The future of the world depends not on kings and statesmen, but on people like you’. ow.ly/kCHG30rqDS0 #otd

Freed Poplar councillors George Lansbury, John Scurr, Charlie Sumner and Sam March meet Health Minister Alfred Mond prepare for the conference on reform of the rating system to be held on 17 October. ow.ly/i7wn30rqDRY #otd

Solicitor WH Thompson argues at a University Socialist meeting that if other borough councillors had acted as Poplar had, then they could have won without councillors having been jailed. ow.ly/61Q530rqDRZ #otd

Released Poplar councillors are welcomed home by thousands at a meeting at Bow Baths Hall, having won their freedom without backing down on the issue of rates equalisation. ow.ly/p2lS30rqDRX #otd

Court hearing agrees to release the Poplar councillors from prison to attend a conference to resolve rates inequalities. ow.ly/i9pv30rqDRW #otd

Poplar’s imprisoned councillors write to the borough’s schoolchildren, explaining their actions. ow.ly/9Qil30rqDRV #otd

Conference on the future of Ireland begins at Downing Street; supporters of self-determination demonstrate outside, including a deputation from Poplar. ow.ly/lNYF30rqDRU #otd

In Brixton prison, George Lansbury is ill in bed; other councillors in Brixton and Holloway prisons receive visits from friends and family. ow.ly/YRsp30rqDRT #otd

‘Unemployment Sunday’: huge meetings take place, including five thousand at Bow Baths Hall in Poplar borough, thirty of whose councillors are in jail for defying the unfair rating system. ow.ly/HL4330rqDRS #otd

Daily Herald reports that on the preliminary agenda for November’s London Labour Party AGM, three motions criticise the Party leadership’s lack of support for the Poplar rebellion. ow.ly/ooyq30rqDRR #otd

Memo from Alfred Mond to the Cabinet sets out proposed terms of settlement of the rates dispute with Poplar council. ow.ly/7lzC30rqDRP #otd

Minister of Labour reports that 1,376,768 people are registered as unemployed at the labour exchanges. ow.ly/R6Dl30rqDRQ #otd

Bethnal Green Borough Council votes to print thirty thousand leaflets explaining its actions to local residents. ow.ly/Ipsz30rqDRO #otd