kioskklion.blogg.se - General strike day

'The General Strike is over!' Link opens in a new window, leaflet issued by the Communist Party, Sheffield District Committee, criticising the end of the dispute,.'The settlement of the General Strike' Link opens in a new window, Trades Union Congress and Labour Party 'notes for speakers', putting forward the reasons for the calling off of the dispute.Summarised report of meetings of the Food and Essential Services Committee Link opens in a new window.Draft report of the Public Services Committee and Electricity and Gas Advisory Committee Link opens in a new window on the supply of power and other public services during the strike.Draft report of the Negotiating Committee Link opens in a new window, including detailed information about negotiations before and during the strike.Report of Publicity Committee Link opens in a new window, including information about 'The British Worker' and the issuing of bulletins.Report of Propaganda Committee Link opens in a new window, including information about providing speakers for public meetings.Report of Intelligence Committee Link opens in a new window, including comment on the response to the strike call, the effects of the stoppage, the attitude of the police and the use of military personnel.Report of General Purposes Committee Link opens in a new window, including comment on the setting up of a Transport Section to be responsible for despatch riders (to communicate with strikers across the country), issuing of permits, etc.Report of the Strike Organisation Committee Link opens in a new window, including information about the start and end of the strike.Reports of Trades Union Congress committees, reflecting on the management of the strike:.Trades Union Congress General Council official bulletin:.'The British Worker', official strike news bulletin of the Trades Union Congress:.'The British Gazette', no.8 Link opens in a new window, emergency newspaper issued by the government.1927: The Trades Disputes and Trade Union Act makes all sympathetic strikes and mass picketing illegal, forbids the trade unions’ political levy, civil service unions to affiliate to the Trades Union Congress, and local authority workers from breaking their terms of contract (on pain of imprisonment).

The Trades Union Congress blames the miners for not accepting the Samuel memorandum.

20-21 January 1927: A conference of trade union executives is convened to review the general strike.

27-30 November 1926: Miners return to work to lower pay and longer hours.

: Miners' representatives meet with members of the government, including Winston Churchill, and are told that there will be no further subsidy for the coal industry.

: Meeting between miners and coalowners ends in deadlock, as coalowners make it clear they will only accept unconditional surrender.

: The Miners' Federation of Great Britain Delegate Conference empowers the union executive to reopen negotiations with coalowners and government without prior conditions.

The General Council refuses but undertakes to provide financial support for locked out miners.

15 July 1926: The Miners' Federation of Great Britain requests the Trades Union Congress General Council to impose an embargo on movements of coal.

5 July 1926: Coalowners post notices of new terms of employment, based on an eight hour working day for miners.

21 June 1926: A Bill to suspend the miners’ Seven Hours Act for 5 years and permitting a return to an eight hour working day is introduced into the House of Commons with the support of the coalowners.

8 June 1926: A conference between the miners and coalowners ends in deadlock.

: The government is reported to be arranging for import of foreign coal.

: The coalowners reject the Prime Minister's proposals.

In the Hammersmith North parliamentary by-election, the Labour Party gain the seat from the Conservatives.

: The Miners’ Delegate Conference rejects the Prime Minister's proposals.

There is widespread victimisation of strikers.

15-: Various agreements are made for resumption of work.

The railway unions accept terms of reinstatement proposed by the railway companies which include the statement “that in calling a strike they committed a wrongful act”. : The Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin sends proposals to the miners and coalowners which are less favourable to the miners than the Samuel memorandum.Workers resume the strike and more are on strike than on any previous day.

Many employers state that they will only reinstate striking workers if they agree to revised (worse) employment conditions.

: 'The British Gazette' Link opens in a new window claims that there has been an "unconditional surrender" by the strikers.

Strike fortnight : A diary of the principal events and phases of the strike Link opens in a new window, 1926