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 | | On the 11th May, at a meeting of the Trade Union Congress General Committee, it was decided to accept the terms proposed by Herbert Samuel and to call off the General Strike. | | | The leaders of both the Trade Union Council and the Labour Party were unhappy about the proposed General Strike, and during the next two days frantic efforts were made to reach an agreement with the Conservative Government and the mine-owners. | | | The method was to hold the Government and the nation up to ransom. |
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| | UK General Strike of 1926 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Government had prepared for the strike over the nine months in which it had provided a subsidy, creating organisations such as the organisation for the maintenance of supplies, and did whatever it could to keep the country moving. | | | The report also recommended that the Government subsidy should be withdrawn and that the miners' wages should be reduced in order to save the industry's profitability. | | | Churchill (at that time minister of finance) said in his newspaper British Gazette : " I do not agree that the TUC have as much right as the Government to publish their side of the case and to exhort their followers to continue action. |
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| | It is unsustainable both fiscally and in the eyes of the taxpayer for the public sector not to do the same." But at a meeting on Tuesday night, 13 unions, including Amicus, the GMB and the TGWU as well as the NUT, agreed to unite in opposition. | | | Mr Prentis revealed that Mr Johnson had offered privately to defer the introduction of the new regime for existing public sector workers from the original 2013 schedule to 2018, but that concession was "not sufficient". | | | Earlier this year, The Daily Telegraph revealed that based on actuaries' assessment, funding the generous public sector pensions regime would cost taxpayers nearly £700 billion in a few decades' time. |
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| | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Society Strike hits key services across UK |
| | In a written statement issued today, Phil Woolas, minister for local government, said that the government intended to amend regulations to put in place the proposed changes. | | | The union leader also accused the Local Government Association of "deliberately trying to mislead the public" over supposed costs to the local government pension scheme. | | | Digby Jones, director general of the Confederation of British Industry, blamed the government decision to allow lifetime protection to all public sector workers other than local government staff for today's action. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Pensions strike bites across UK |
| | The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister held a three-month consultation on the issue, which finished on 28 February. | | | The government argues the current rule is discriminatory and hopes that an alternative solution can be found. | | | Strike action is the only option left to local government workers |
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| | The General Strike, May 1926 |
| | Miners Federation of G.B. statement by MFGB to conference of TU executives held to receive TUC General Council report on work entrusted to them in General Strike 1927 | | | London Strike News - National Unemployed Workers Committee | | | Message from Chief General Manager, Sir Ralph Wedgwood |
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| | 1926: British general strike - libcom.org/history peopleshistory.co.uk |
| | His April 1925 budget he aimed to make the pound as valuable as the dollar and, as such, overvalued the pound by 10%. | | | It was built up and joined by the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies. | | | The TUC General Council, however, was ready to accept it but found that by now the government wasn’t listening. |
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| | The employment-based problem is that the good manufacturing jobs that helped to raise previous generations out of poverty are gone to countries who pay less. | | | So that's 2 votes so far for "it's the poors' fault they are poor." | | | People need to be forced to be insured, even if the government has to pay for it. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Politics Special Reports Unions threaten 'biggest strike since 1926' |
| | With talks due to resume on reforming public sector pension provision in September, the row could flare up again embarrassingly at the Labour party conference in two weeks' time. | | | With 13 unions now agreed, he said, 3m public sector workers could strike. | | | Industrial action by eight unions protesting to the plan was only narrowly averted before the general election by the promise of talks. |
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| | BOOKWATCH: THE GENERAL STRIKE |
| | The TUC was to spend an inordinate amount of time claiming that it was only a trade dispute. | | | Between 1921 and 1922 Britain experienced a number of bitter and protracted sectional struggles. | | | Both these books are sympathetic and good factual accounts of the strike. |
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| | AcademicDB - The General Strike, 1926 |
| | The General Strike, 1926 The Conservative Government proclaimed that by undertaking a General Strike the wide variety of essential industries that were threatening to discontinue their work were being unconstitutional. | | | With such a large following the potential new Government could have brought about revolutionary changes in the Government at the time and hence the Conservatives were threatened. | | | This document is part of AcademicDB, a database of over 15,000 UK university essays and coursework documents written by UK university students covering all subject areas. |
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| | 1926 general strike: nine days of hope6May06Socialist Worker |
| | They took the miners on first, in what was the beginning of a general offensive by the employers in order to restore profit levels. | | | One was that the general council itself could be relied upon to act decisively in workers’ interests. | | | The government organised, dividing the country into ten administrative districts and arresting the leadership of the Communist Party. |
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| | Red Clydeside: The General Strike on Clydeside 1926 |
| | The maintenance of communications was one of the main functions of the strike committees. | | | The services that were still able to run during the strike were maintained and run by volunteers and non-striking staff members who were organised by the government's Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies (OMS). | | | Picketing was organised by the unions who had their own strike committees. |
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| | Ymgyrchu! - Labour Struggles - The Miner's strikes of the 70's and 80's. |
| | The Prime Minister, Edward Heath, called a General Election hoping that the electorate would support the Government's attempts to deal with the deteriorating industrial situation, but the Conservative Party was defeated. | | | The Unions themselves argued that the Government's policies were having a damaging effect on the coal communities. | | | These women played an important role in the strike by raising money to help support the miners and their families. |
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| | The General Strike : Radical Glasgow : Glasgow Caledonian University |
| | On the 31st of July 1925 the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, stated "All the workers of this country have got to take reductions in wages to help to put industry on its feet". | | | The government called up the reservists and declared a state of emergency. | | | Strike committees were formed throughout North Ayrshire, the Stirlingshire Coalfields and East Renfrewshire. |
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| | Permit issued by TUC allowing courier freedom of movement during General Strike, May 1926 |
| | The maintenance of communication was one of the main functions of the local Strike Committees and channels of communication could only be effectively maintained in strike conditions by the issuing of strike permits which allowed couriers to travel across the country with permission to pass through picket lines. | | | Whilst the General Council of the TUC took overall control of national planning of the General Strike, it was bodies such as the Trades Councils and the newly formed Central Strike Coordinating Committees who organised the strike at the regional and district levels. | | | In addition to these regional and district bodies Local Area Strike Committees were also formed as a means of keeping in close with rank and file strikers. |
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| | General Strike report of the Associated Iron, Steel and Brass Dressers of Scotland, May 1926 |
| | These reports proved vital in informing the TUC of the strength and support for the General Strike throughout the UK. | | | An example being the widespread exemptions granted to building workers involved in the construction of hospital buildings and municipal housing whilst all other building workers were expected to heed the call to strike. | | | Many of the problems encountered by the grass roots during the strike were as a result of ambiguities in the strike messages sent to unions, where only certain members of an individual trade union were called out and others were granted exemptions by the TUC. |
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| | politics 1914-74 general bibliography |
| | Memoirs of a Conservative: J.C.C. Davidson’s Memoirs and Papers 1910-1937 (junior minister, close confidant of Baldwin: played an important role in government preparations for a strike) | | | Mason,A ‘The government and the General Strike, 1926’, | | | Clegg,HA General Union in a Changing Society: A Short History of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 1889-1964 |
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| | Leaflet entitled 'Printing Trades Joint Committee: General Strike Aftermath', May 1926 |
| | Leaflet entitled 'Printing Trades Joint Committee: General Strike Aftermath', May 1926 | | | Following the end of the General Strike many workers lost their jobs as a direct result of their trade union membership and their loyalty to their fellow trade unionists during the strike. | | | This was as a result of the TUCs decision not to call out workers in the engineering and shipbuilding trades until the 12th May, the day on which the General Strike was called off. |
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| | UK Indymedia |
| | Related Articles : IMC Needs You, Bad time for indymedia servers, rampART hacklab report, evolution and changes to IMC UK. | | | Indymedia always needs more volunteers and at the moment the IMC UK network in particular is seeking more tech help so that it can be more active in the development of the content management program used by many IMC sites. | | | Fellow detainees responded with a one-day hunger strike and a written statement about their conditions and treatment in detention. |
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| | May 12 - Simple English Wikipedia |
| | 1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. |
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| | General Strike - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK |
| | In 1968 another general strike occurred in France when university students and workers joined together during May and June and closed the major industries and universities. | | | In 1926 a general strike in Great Britain was called in sympathetic protest against the national lockout of the coal miners, but the strikers were forced to capitulate when it became clear that the government was able to keep essential services running and when only about half of the workers answered the strike call. | | | general strike, sympathetic cessation of work by a majority of the workers in all industries of a locality or nation. |
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| | Ymgyrchu! - Labour Struggles - The Miners' Next Step and the 1926 General Strike |
| | Thomas, who had been the Liberal MP for Cardiff Borough and Merthyr, was the owner of the Cambrian Combine and the trouble started when some men refused the pay he was offering. | | | On 12 May the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in London announced that the General Strike had come to an end, as they had accepted better terms from Stanley Bladwin's Government. | | | By this time the miners had to accept the terms and conditions of the owners and these were much less favourable than those offered the previous May. The number of miners in South Wales fell from 218,000 in 1926 to 194,000 the following year. |
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| | BBC - History - General Strike 1926 - 27 |
| | The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emergency measures and lack of real public support, it collapsed after nine days. | | | In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. | | | Nevertheless, it provided the excuse for retaliatory measures against trades unions and led to the passage of the 1927 Trade Disputes Act, which restricted the ability of workers to strike. |
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| | Durham Miner Project - General Strike of 1926 - It's effect on miners |
| | After the strike 30,000 miners had not restarted work even though they had been guaranteed that there would be no victimisation. | | | The 1926 Strike, brought about through the imposition of lower wages and extended hours of work, affected the Durham miners far more than those in other parts of the country. | | | Orders for coal had been lost and its overproduction meant that the coal owners could not sell the coal being produced. |
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| | 1926 - Free net encyclopedia |
| | December 2 - British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to general strike | | | May 12 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3). | | | May 10 - Talks between government and strikers begins in UK |
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| | The Government had prepared for the strike for months and did whatever it could to keep the country moving. | | | THE UK General Strike of 1926 lasted nine days, from May 3 to May 12, and was called by the TUC in an unsuccessful attempt to force the Government to prevent wage reduction and worsening conditions for coal miners. | | | The armed forces and volunteer workers helped maintain basic services. |
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| | Resignation of UK Labour government, followed by formation of national coalition government; Empire State building completed in New York; Virginia Woolf, The Waves; Nobel prize - R.A. Karfeldt (S). | | | Berlin airlift; state of Israel founded; Railways and electricity nationalised in UK; Bevan launches National Health Service in UK. | | | Neville Chamberlain UK prime minister; Destruction of Guernica; George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier; Nobel prize - Roger Martin du Gard (Fr). |
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| | Facts about strike |
| | Punches are usually a bit weaker than kicks, but faster to deliver. | | | Strike is the generic name for a blunt, crushing attack made with or without a weapon. | | | Striking weapons include the club, the mace and the warhammer and is probably the oldest category of weapons known to humans. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK Churchill warned on strike march |
| | It was planned amid the industrial strife which had peaked with the May 1926 General Strike. | | | According to the papers at the National Archives, Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, raised concerns about a nationally co-ordinated march of unemployed men planned for 1927. | | | Although planned as a major protest, the march suffered from similar obstacles as the General Strike, with the left split over the involvement of the Communist Party of Great Britain. |
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| | Border Country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It also describes Matthew Price's own decision to become an academic and leave his own community. | | | His father had been a railway signalman, and the story includes flashbacks to the 1920s, the General Strike and its impact on a small group of railway workers living in a community made up mostly of farmers. | | | It has never really been out of print since its first publication in 1960. |
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| | 1926 - UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends (the strike began on May 3). | | | 1912 - Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General and Watergate special prosecutor |
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| | 1926 in sports: Encyclopedia topic |
| | other events of 1926 (other events of 1926: 1926 was a common year starting on friday (link will take you to calendar).... | | | The updated page can be found at: 1926 in sports |
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| | History: Britain's 1926 General Strike - workers taste power |
| | The book will particularly deal with the revolutionary possibilities of the General Strike and the question of whether the fledgling Communist Party of Great Britain had the right strategy, programme and tactics to take full advantage of the strike and the period. | | | New book by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party | | | This May sees the eightieth anniversary of the 1926 General Strike in Britain - the most important and earth-shattering moment in the history of the British working class. |
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| | In Defence of Marxism - Home |
| | The General Strike of 1926: 80 years on what are the lessons? | | | In Blackpool over the May Day Bank holiday, the British shop workers’ union USDAW, representing some 330,000 workers, passed a resolution unanimously supporting the Venezuelan Revolution and affiliating to the Hands Off Venezuela Campaign. | | | In Part One of British Perspectives Phil Mitchinson looks at the general trends in British politics, with an eye to the international situation, the war in Iraq, and the decline of Blairism. |
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| | What were the results of the general strike of 1926? |
| | CourseworkBank : AS, A2 and A-Level : History : Britain : What were the results of the general strike of 1926? | | | What were the results of the general strike of 1926? | | | CourseworkBank.Co.Uk - The UK's Largest Free Coursework and Essay Database |
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| | Category:UK General Strike of 1926 - Wikimedia Commons |
| | Category:UK General Strike of 1926 - Wikimedia Commons | | | Articles in category "UK General Strike of 1926" | | | This page was last modified 12:20, 14 January 2006. |
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