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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. It was called by the General Council...37 KB (4,656 words) - 16:41, 14 July 2024- Jessie Eden (section 1926 general strike)the Birmingham rent-strike of 1939. She convinced women at Birmingham's Joseph Lucas motor factory to join the 1926 UK General Strike, and led an unprecedented...16 KB (1,855 words) - 13:10, 29 June 2024
- A general strike is a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade...52 KB (6,098 words) - 18:13, 1 July 2024
against a background of rising unemployment, with the memory of the 1926 general strike still fresh in voters' minds. By 1929, the Cabinet was being described...28 KB (687 words) - 08:52, 27 July 2024
million, making it the largest since the 1926 General Strike. The journalist Seumas Milne said of the strike that "it has no real parallel – in size,...175 KB (18,876 words) - 21:50, 7 August 2024- BBC independence (section 1926 General Strike)it approximates to the truth’. In 1926, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called a General Strike to prevent wage reductions and worsening...29 KB (4,038 words) - 23:40, 11 August 2024
A. J. Cook (trade unionist) (category General Secretaries of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain))leader who was General Secretary of the Minors of Great Britain from 1924 until 1931, a period that included the 1926 General Strike. A. J. Cook was...8 KB (742 words) - 21:56, 22 June 2024- father, committed the previous series and ends following the general strike of May 1926, with Tommy using communist leader Jessie Eden for information...85 KB (6,859 words) - 23:30, 14 July 2024
- February 26, 1926, all grades of the African workers within the Railway Department of the Sierra Leone Government participated in a strike. This strike represented...18 KB (2,439 words) - 05:33, 13 August 2024
involved in miners' union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing...93 KB (10,853 words) - 00:13, 22 July 2024- The Binny Mills strike of 1926 was a general strike in 1926 in the Bangalore Woollen, Cotton and Silk Mills, which was popularly known as Binny Mills...1 KB (107 words) - 15:10, 17 February 2024
several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the Daily Worker (renamed the Morning...93 KB (9,264 words) - 03:00, 14 July 2024- the Industrial Revolution but is not as widely remembered as the 1926 general strike. The period of unrest was labelled "great" not because of its scale...16 KB (1,865 words) - 10:03, 17 June 2024
of the British Fascists, who was awarded a medal for strike-breaking during the 1926 General Strike and formed a Glasgow branch of the British Union of...16 KB (1,613 words) - 12:51, 8 July 2024- BBC controversies (section 1926 general strike)surrounding or involving the BBC. In 1926, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) called a General Strike to prevent wage reductions and worsening...163 KB (19,182 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2024
- Frank Erni Dawkins (section 1926 General Strike)speaker at Whitestone Pond on Hampstead Heath. Following the 1926 General Strike 4–12 May 1926 Dawkins devoted himself to the cause of the locked out miners...18 KB (2,220 words) - 16:36, 25 April 2024
Co-operative Group) GEC, formerly General Electric Company (renamed Marconi, broken up, remnant renamed Telent) General Accident (merged with Commercial...89 KB (6,676 words) - 23:01, 9 August 2024- 24-hour strikes were scheduled for 21, 23 and 25 June. Both the RMT and the TSSA warned of a level of disruption not experienced since the 1926 general strike...21 KB (1,672 words) - 00:34, 5 August 2024
elected Labour MP for Middlesbrough East in 1924, and supported the 1926 General Strike. In the 1929–31 Labour government, she served as Parliamentary Private...84 KB (10,051 words) - 18:58, 12 July 2024
by the leaders of what would soon be National Labour, after the 1926 General Strike. Otherwise picketing was banned by the Liberal-tabled Criminal Law...15 KB (1,893 words) - 00:14, 29 March 2024
- Strike Strategy (1926) by William Z. Foster 4279082Strike Strategy1926William Z. Foster 290 page Organize Your Struggles! Left Wingers and Progressive
- A general strike (or mass strike) is a strike action in which a substantial proportion of the total labor force in a city, region, or country participates
- task to deal with the problem of unemployment. The period from the General Strike in 1926, when the union leaders fully appreciated the political implications