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General Strike. ... When negotiations failed the trades union declared a national strike and workers in buildings, transport, printing and other industries came out in support of the miners. The strike began on 3rd May. ... The strike was called off on 12th May.
There were many causes which lead up to the general strike. ... Owners had announced a pay cut from 30th April 1926 but the miners retaliated and said that they would strike from the 1st May 1926. ... The employers did not have to lower wages, which would have been better in the long term because the general strike would not have taken place. ... The trade union tried to prevent things from going this far but negotiations were broken off by the government because the printers of the Daily Mail had refused to print an article condemning the strike. The Prime Minister Baldwin said that this was a sign that the strike had begun so he refused to talk until the strike had stopped. ... I believe that secretly the government wanted a strike to commence because if they were able to beat it, it might give them extra votes. ... Both the trade union and the Labour Party agreed that if a strike was to take place, it would become far too expensive if they had lost it, and neither of them wanted that to happen.
Approximate Word count = 1108
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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