Picture No | 10223059 |
Date | May 1926 |
Description | The General Strike - potato peelers at work |
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Mr. Willcox Pollen and the Misses Thorpe busy peeling potatoes at a Hyde Park canteen in London. These canteens were set up to feed food transport workers during the General Strike and were staffed by well-known society people. 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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