General Strike Chronology
March 1926: The Samuel Commission on the Coal Industry issues its long -awaited report: the coal industry should be reorganised but not nationalised; the subsidy for miners’ wages that had been paid for nine months to avert a strike in 1925 should end on April 30th....
The Workers’ Bulletin
Tuesday May 4th, The Workers’ Bulletin Congratulations to the workers of Great Britain! Nothing finer has ever been seen … The stoppage is complete. The wanton brutality of the Government and the coal-owners in their combined endeavour to force a reduction of wages...
The British Worker
The British Worker Wednesday 5th May, MESSAGE TO ALL WORKERS The General Council of the Trades Union Congress wishes to emphasise the fact that this is an industrial dispute. It expects every member taking part to be exemplary in his conduct and not give any...
The British Gazette
Wednesday 5th May the British Gazette: ‘…the democratic State cannot possibly submit to sectional dictation. It is bound to defend and assert, no matter at what cost, the national and constitutional authority … a General Strike … is a conflict between Trade...
Upper-Class Volunteers 1926
Oh, it’s such a lark being a volunteer and helping to break this damned strike, don’t you know. Just listen to this! ‘Seeing it Through’ Tommy is stoking an engine, Grandpa waves flags red and green, Innocent Florrie Is driving a lorry, While Millicent runs a...
BBC 1926
This is the BBC; Tuesday May 4th.1926 Reports from every part of the country to-day reveal that the General Strike which began at midnight has caused an almost complete industrial paralysis. The Report of the Trades Union General Council was that the stoppage had been...