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| Picture No | 10223087 |
| Date | May 1926 |
| Description | The General Strike - hitching a lift 1926 |
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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.
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| Source | Photograph in 'The Illustrated London News', 15 May 1926, page 855 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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