The General Strike 1926
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- The General Strike 1926
- Causes of the strike
- Coal miners working conditions
- Wages based on results
- Short breaks
- Coal miners health and safety
- Roofs could collapse
- Blue scars
- Old equipment
- 1,100 men killed a year
- 500 injured a day
- Coal dust damaging lungs
- Owners and managers
- Ponies valued more than men
- Owners got 7p for every tonne of coal
- Owners were seen as the enemy
- Coal miners working conditions
- The reports
- The Sankey report 1920
- The report suggested nationalization of the mines
- Britain was in more debt after WW1
- The Samuel Report
- Suggested pay cuts
- The Government provided a subsidy for the wages
- The Sankey report 1920
- The key events of the strike
- June/July 1925
- AJ Cook demands "Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day."
- TUC agreed to support any miners strike
- Mine owners cut wages
- May 1926
- 3rd-12th
- General Strike starts
- TUC became scared that the strike was illegal
- Herbert Samuel proposed a new settlement
- TUC calls of the strike
- They said the Memorandum was an acceptable agreement
- 3rd-12th
- June/July 1925
- Causes of the strike
- Unhygienic
- Dark
- Crowded
- Dusty
- Very hot
- Coal miners working conditions
- Wages based on results
- Short breaks
- The importance of coal
- Major source of energy
- Used in other industries e.g. transport
- Biggest export
- The General Strike 1926
- Causes of the strike
- Coal miners health and safety
- Roofs could collapse
- Blue scars
- Old equipment
- 1,100 men killed a year
- 500 injured a day
- Coal dust damaging lungs
- Owners and managers
- Ponies valued more than men
- Owners got 7p for every tonne of coal
- Owners were seen as the enemy
- Coal miners health and safety
- The reports
- The Sankey report 1920
- The report suggested nationalization of the mines
- Britain was in more debt after WW1
- The Samuel Report
- Suggested pay cuts
- The Government provided a subsidy for the wages
- The Sankey report 1920
- The key events of the strike
- June/July 1925
- AJ Cook demands "Not a penny off the pay, not an hour on the day."
- TUC agreed to support any miners strike
- Mine owners cut wages
- May 1926
- 3rd-12th
- General Strike starts
- TUC became scared that the strike was illegal
- Herbert Samuel proposed a new settlement
- TUC calls of the strike
- They said the Memorandum was an acceptable agreement
- 3rd-12th
- June/July 1925
- Causes of the strike
- 1st
- TUC told to work with the government on unions behalf
- Miners strike begins
- 2nd
- TUC reach an agreement but couldn't consult the miners
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