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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.
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 British Gazette was a short-lived British state newspaper published by the government during the General Strike of 1926.. One of the first groups of workers called out by the Trades Union Congress when the general strike began on 3 May were the printers, and consequently most newspapers appeared only in truncated form.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
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1926 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
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