Picture No | 10223110 |
Date | May 1926 |
Description | Women helped during the Great Strike 1926 |
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In Mrs Loeffler's canteen at Scotland House. Lady volunteers, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, feeding Special Constables, who had come to Scotland Yard to report, while on duty. 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 | Photogrpah in 'The Sphere', 22 May 1926, page 159 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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