Picture No | 10223061 |
Date | May 1926 |
Description | The General Strike |
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Lady Leslie (top left), Mr. Sidney Coxon, Lady Askwith, Lady Leigh (bottom left) and Mrs Dennistoun helping to prepare vegetables at one of the canteens set up in Hyde Park, London during the General Strike, in order to feed the food transport workers. These were staffed by well-known members of society. 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
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Source | The Sketch. 12th & 19th May 1926 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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