How far did the measures taken by the post war coalition satisfy working classes? How did this affect Lloyd George's position as PM?
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- How far did measures taken by the post-war coalition satisfy working classes? Did this affect Lloyd George's position as PM?
- Industrial Relations
- Sankey Commission (1919)
- Sensation - revealed high profits made during war ans scandously low living conditions of miners & families
- Black Friday/Coal Miner's Strike (1921)
- Miner's demanded 30% pay rise, 6 hour days, nationalisation
- London only had 3 days coal supply, miners poisoned the strike
- April 15th 1921 - Black Friday,.
- J.H. Thomas of railway men's union abruptly stopped support for miners. Workers likewise
- Sankey Commission (1919)
- Ireland
- Hostility in Ireland after Easter Rising & suspension of the Home Rule Bill until after war
- Deployment of the Black & Tans against the IRA (1920)
- Conscription extentions meant Sinn Fein won 73/105 Irish seats (1918). Refused to take seats - wanted on govt. in Dublin.
- Guerilla warfare against British - now IRA (176 policemen killed). LG recruited special forces (Black & Tans). Tried to keep peace, but became a hatred symbol of British authority in Ireland
- Irish Free State (1921)
- How & what was agreed?
- Ireland had dominion status if 6 counties of ulster were allowed to opt out and remain part of the UK
- Lloyd George used persuasion, bluff diplomacy, duplicity and threat to revert to immediate war
- Success or Failure?
- Relative peace to Ireland 50 years
- South gained independence controlled all internal affairs and Treaty offered possibility of eventual Irish unity
- Unionists didn't want seperate state - given into terrorism?
- How & what was agreed?
- Fisher's Education Act (1918)
- Raised the school leaving age from 12 to 14 - Local Authority option of 15
- Unemployment Insurance Act (1920)
- Weekly income, unemployment benefit - 15 weeks income to 11m workers
- Addison's Housing Act (1919)
- Passed to allow the building of new houses after WW1. Councils given subsidies, by 1922, 312,000 built
- Growth, depression & the Geddes Axe (1922)
- Consumer demand very high, industry expected to meet this (restocking)
- 1920 - only 2.6% insured workers without jobs
- 1920/1 - depression, production exceeded consumption
- Industrial Relations
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