Catalogue Number
NMLH.1996.65
Object Name
newspaper
Title
'Daily Mirror. Wednesday May 12 1926. Organization that counteracts the strike evil. Safeguarding the nation's food and transport.'
Place
London, UK
People
Daily Mirror, Lady Louis Mountbatten
Events
1926 General Strike
Description
A copy of the Daily Mirror produced on 12 May 1926. The front cover headlines are 'Organization that counteracts the strike evil' and 'Safeguarding the nation's food and transport'. The cover has three black and white photographs - one of a man and woman filling a bucket with water captioned 'Lady Mountbatten helping at Hyde Park', a man filling a car with packages captioned 'Loading meat into a small car at Smithfield', a a row of trucks led by a police car captioned 'Police escorting a convoy of lorries laden with petrol, near Regent's Park.'
The 1926 General Strike was called off by the TUC on May 12 after nine days where millions of workers went on strike in solidarity with striking mine workers who were opposing proposals to increase their work day while simultaneously cutting their pay. For the majority of the strike, newspapers could only produce scaled-down print-only issues as the printers were on strike. This issue, printed on the final day of the strike, is a return to a full newspaper, and is believed to be among the first sources to refer to the strike as the 'General Strike'. The articles in this issue cover the efforts of strikebreaking volunteers during the nine days who undertook jobs like delivering petrol or food around the country where workers had gone on strike.
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