Picture No | 11680421 |
Date | August 1911 |
Description | National Railway strike of 1911 |
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Double page spread of scenes in London of siege conditions, the great strike threatening to bring the whole railway service of Britain to a standstill. However although the estimated strike of men was 220,000, two-thirds of the railway servants stuck to their posts, and the whole was maintained.
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Source | Photographs in 'The Graphic', 26 August 1911, pages 306 & 307 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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