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The 1926 general strike in the United Kingdom was a general strike that lasted nine days, from 4 to 12 May 1926. [1] It was called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reductions and worsening conditions for 1.2 million locked-out coal miners.
1 May – Coal miners' strike begins in Britain over planned pay reductions. 3 May – A general strike begins in support of the miners' strike at midnight 3–4 May. 4 May – The BBC broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published due to the general strike. 9 May – Martial law in Britain because of the general strike.
The Gazette ran to only eight editions before the strike collapsed; the last edition, on 13 May 1926, had the headline "General Strike Off". [1] On 7 July 1926, at the end of a debate in Parliament on whether to grant the money to pay for the British Gazette, Churchill responded to Labour MP A. A. Purcell's speculation about what would happen ...
A. Mason, 'The Government and the General Strike, 1926', International Review of Social History 14 (1969), pp. 1–22; Anne Perkins, A Very British Strike: 3–12 May 1926, Macmillan, 2006; G.A. Phillips, The General Strike: the politics of industrial conflict, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976; Patrick Renshaw, The General Strike, Taylor & Francis ...
Teachers, train drivers, civil servants and university staff among professions taking action
The British Worker was a newspaper produced by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress for the duration of the 1926 United Kingdom general strike.The first of eleven issues was printed on 5 May and publication stopped on 17 May after the official cessation of the strike.
RMT rail workers will stage another 48-hour strike. National Highways workers to stage a two-day action in the East Midlands and eastern England. The DVSA strike continues in London, South East ...
The first of two 48-hour strikes at Network Rail and 14 train companies are to begin on Tuesday (Dec 13) after members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) rejected a pay offer.