CAUSES OF THE GENERAL STRIKE
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- Causes of the General Strike, 1926
- Economic
- 'Structural coal problems' (long term): demand had fallen for coal due to foreign comp. and use of oil
- 'Wages were cut, hours increased' (short term): miners angered because during the war there were national wage and hour controls (nationalisation)
- 'Samuel Commission' Baldwin gov subsidised wages and profits for 9 months + S.C. set up to report on coal problems
- 'Not a penny off the pay, not a second off the day' (short term): Samuel Commission recommends wage cuts, miners appeal to TUC when owners force them to accept less pay and longer hours and the Strike began two days later on 3 May 1926
- 'Samuel Commission' Baldwin gov subsidised wages and profits for 9 months + S.C. set up to report on coal problems
- 'Return to Gold Standard, 1925' (short term): Exacerbated falling demand because it made coal more expensive this made owners want to cut wages and extend hours further, miners appealed to gov.
- 'Samuel Commission' Baldwin gov subsidised wages and profits for 9 months + S.C. set up to report on coal problems
- 'Not a penny off the pay, not a second off the day' (short term): Samuel Commission recommends wage cuts, miners appeal to TUC when owners force them to accept less pay and longer hours and the Strike began two days later on 3 May 1926
- 'Samuel Commission' Baldwin gov subsidised wages and profits for 9 months + S.C. set up to report on coal problems
- 'Wages were cut, hours increased' (short term): miners angered because during the war there were national wage and hour controls (nationalisation)
- 'Structural coal problems' (long term): demand had fallen for coal due to foreign comp. and use of oil
- Political (vastly long term)
- 'Class conflict' working class thought that in the war the 'officer class' viewed them as 'cannon fodder'
- 'Syndicalism/rise in trade union membership' This made the TUC more confident using direct industrial action
- 'Leadership failures': Baldwin could have put more pressure on owners to reach a compromise instead set up fight/ state of emergency with TUC through 1921 Emergency Powers Act
- 'Class conflict' working class thought that in the war the 'officer class' viewed them as 'cannon fodder'
- Economic
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