Everybody out in the General Strike! May 1926

At the stroke of midnight on 3 May 1926, unemployment, industrial decline and social inequalities result in a General Strike. For nine days, Britain is almost at a standstill.
Nearly two million workers in vital services go on strike in support of coal miners who, locked out of the mines, refuse to accept wage cuts and longer hours. Non-strikers, in a cheerful spirit of co-operation, volunteer to run essential services. But silent groups of miners' families show the human cost of industrial chaos.

Reuters: news footage.

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