The General Strike - volunteers 1926

Volunteers during the General Strike helping to convey goods at a railway station in wet weather. 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

Collapsed Convey Cuts Lack Measures Organised Sectors Strikes Threatened Volunteers Wage

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