Picture No | 10223055 |
Date | May 1926 |
Description | The General Strike - civil constabulary reserve 1926 |
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A unit of new recruits to the new civil constabulary reserve, equipped with steel helmets, truncheons and armlets, leaving headquarters at Buckingham Gate in 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
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Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 May 1926, page 857 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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