1926 general strike photo gallery

Photos and documents from the British general strike of 1926. Taken from Woolf Online.

1926 general strike photo gallery
1926 general strike photo gallery
Picket at the docks
Amalgamated Engineering Union letter
Arthur James Cook delivering a speech
Barrels being unloaded
Birkenhead News from the 8th May
Corn merchants ask for permit
Dockyard workers
Engineers telegram
Government annoucement
Deliveries made under guard
TUC propaganda
Labour Party letter from the 10th May
Liverpool Council of Action calling for strike action to be supported
Liverpool Post and Echo suspends workers involved in wildcat strike
North Wales Chronicle
Miners in South Wales
Accommodation for strikers
Tanks deployed
End of the general strike
TUC letter
Students scabbing at the docks
Ships being unloaded during the strike
Merseyside Council of Action letter from the 5th May
Queues at the post office
Report of the Liverpool Council of Action
Page one of a Scottish TUC letter from the 6th May
Page two
1926 general strike photo gallery
Brighton and Dorset police brought into Wales, standing with managers of the collieries
Scabs in Glasgow attempt to right an overturned bus
The Unemployed Worker zine

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flaneur
Nov 21 2012 16:13

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Auld-bod
Dec 9 2012 10:53

Just to point out that the photo captioned ‘Tanks deployed’ are actually armoured cars similar to the type that had been used by the black and tans.

A tank has tracks, which enables it to span trenches, roll over and crush barricades, etc. It changed the military balance during WW1 from defensive superiority to one where it was possible to take the offensive (taking over the role previously played by the cavalry as the ‘spearhead’, which the invention of the machine gun had made obsolete).

See ‘http://urbanglasgow.co.uk/archive/tank-on-trongate__o_t__t_677.html’ which shows the tanks that were sent to Glasgow during the short general strike there in 1919.

Auld-bod
Jun 11 2013 15:24

Some people may find this ‘entertaining’ regarding the 1926 General Strike.

Stanley Holloway (an old comedian) provides a commentary for a series of historic reels titled ‘Time To Remember 1926 – Short Sharp Shower’.

Reel 3:
03:00 onwards - Holloway – “Oh dear! Another strike, said Aunty Jessie.”

Reel 4:
The commentary is beyond parody it makes Joseph Goebbels appear subtle.
Peter Baylis, who wrote and produced this travesty, what an ignoramus!

http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/1926+general+strike

Edit: Oops sorry, was a bit rude, too much rid biddy,