The General Strike - hitching a lift 1926
An ingenious device for getting a lift: a girl clerk in South London obtains a motor-cyclist cavalier. A girl holding a sign saying Please take me waits for a lift into London during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emergency measures and lack of real public support, it collapsed after nine days
Picture No
10223087
Media ID
45996126
Size
4070px x 4516px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph in The Illustrated London News', 15 May 1926, page 855
Date
May 1926
