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The General Strike
May 1926

Communist Party of Great Britain
Trades Union Congress
British Worker and British Gazette
National Press
Sunday Press
London-wide Press
London local papers, documents
Manchester area papers, documents
Midland papers & documents
North-East & Yorks
Scotland papers & documents
Other documents
Anti-strike and Government statements
Pamphlets
50th Anniversary celebrations - 1976
National Union of Railwaymen & Railway Clerks Association
Bound Volumes
Communist Party of Great Britain
CPGB Children's holiday homes dept. Scheme to offer homes for miners' children during miners strike 1926. 1926 22/12 1/1
CPGB Fight to win! Political meaning of General Strike. 1926 May 1/1
CPGB 1926 General Strike 1926 1/1
CPGB History Group Reports & questionnaire, recording of memories of strike. 1968 1/1
CPGB History Group Project for group research and tape recording. Saville, Hull University 1968 5/10 1/1
CPGB History Group Circular from A.L.Morton re CP History group project 1968 7/11 1/1
CPGB Manchester & Salford dist Emergency Act prosecutions. 1926 13/5 1/1
CPGB Manchester & Salford dist For trial of communist at Altrincham typescript see sleeve 9 See also 'The Times' in sleeve 4 1926 18/5 1/1
CPGB Manchester & Salford dist Jack Foreshaw and the General Strike in Salford (see biography in biography cabinet) 1926 1/1
CPGB Manchester & Salford dist 'A dead man's appeal' Jack Foreshaw (deceased) appeal against charge of causing disaffection before Salford Police Court 1926 (news cutting) 1926 1/1
CPGB Strike Bulletins. Special strike bulletins 2 - 4,6,7
1/1
CPGB Workers Bulletin May 4 - 8, 10, 11, 13
1/1
CPGB Challenge the capitalist offensive - Support the miners!
1/1
CPGB 'The Great Betrayal'
1/1
Trades Union Congress
TUC telegram TUC decides to support miners 1926 1/5 1/2
TUC General Council. Churches & the industrial crisis 1926 1/2
TUC General Council. Constitution not challenged 1926 1/2
TUC Circular to secretaries of strike committees, Trades Councils, TU's on policy re publication of strike bulletins 1926 8/5 1/2
TUC Copy of telegram to affiliated members re employers attempting to enforce humiliating terms as conditions of resumption of work 1p Citrine 1926 13/5 1/2
TU Defence Committee. Leaflet no.4 The insult to women!
1/2
TUC General Council. GEC Bulletin no.10 pp 2-5. (p.1 missing) deals with announcement of end of General Strike, victimisation, and prints statement by Ramsay Macdonald at Parliamentary LP . 4p c. 1926 13/5 1/2
TUC How the 'Gentlemen of England' man the trains 1p 1926 May 1/2
TUC Message to secretaries of all affiliated unions re settlement of strike 1926 12/5 1/2
TUC Miners' Dispute; terms accepted by TUC; London TUC 2p. 1926 1/2
TUC Negotiations with Cabinet. Extract from official TUC report 1926 May 1/2
TUC General Council Official bulletin no.1 + covering letter & messages of support 1926 4/5 1/2
TUC Official Bulletin nos.1-4, 7, 10, 18 1926 1/2
TUC Publicity committee Conditions in the mining industry. Speakers notes 1925 1/2
TUC Threat to the nation.The great 'hold-up' Official government leaflets, 3 formats
1/2
TUC General Council TU benefits not forfeited 1926 1/2
TUC Trade Union Journals 1966, typescript list Messages of solidarity and support from workers of the world TUC report International Workers Aid, Chicago. 1926 7/5 1/2

International Workers Aid, Chicago. Letter from New York Trades & Labour Council attacking IWA for collecting funds in support of miners strike typescript 1926 7/5 1/2

Conditions in the Mining Industry; Coal industry leaflets 1, 7, 8, 10 - 12
1/2F

Negatives of General Strike - miners
1/2F

Coal industry publications. Coal and the taxpayer; no.1 Origins of the strike;no. 3 wages cost 1925 1/2F

The miners next step (Red conspiracy leaflet no.1) 1925;Leaflets 1, 3, 6, 7. 10-12
1/2F

What they are saying & what they have said nos.1, 2, 4, 1925 1/2F

Coates C. General Strike, brief reading list of 15 titles drawn from TUC library 1926 1/2F

Miners Federation of G.B. statement by MFGB to conference of TU executives held to receive TUC General Council report on work entrusted to them in General Strike 1927
1/2F

'Mines for the Nation' campaign committee. Campaign leaflets nos. 5, 6, 9-11 1925 1/2F

National (Provisional) Miners Council of Action. Call to action 1926 1/2F
National Minority Movement . Letter from General Secretary, George Hardy, to all secretaries of TU branches enclosing call to NUM's 2nd annual conference 1926 July 1/2F
National Minority Movement Chairman Tom Mann's call to the 3rd annual conference (facsimile) 1926 28-9/8 1/2F
National Miners Minority Movement Proposals of Miners Federation, TUC, LP, together with alternative proposals of Miners Minority Movement 1925 1/2F
British Worker and Gazette
British Worker . May 5 - 17 1/3
British Worker 2 full sets (May 5 - 17) + Manchester Edition May 8, 9, 10, 11
1/3
British Gazette '13 days that produced the British Worker' unsigned comments on article by Jim Mortimer of same title May 5, 8 1/3
British Gazette (HMSO) May 8 1/3
British Worker Coventry edition Emergency Bulletin. Maintenance of public services in General Strike
1/3
National Press

Daily Express May 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 1/4

Daily Mail 1926 May 5 - 13 1/4

Daily Mirror 1926 May 5 - 17 1/4

Daily Telegraph May 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 1/4

The Times May 5 1/4

Daily Dispatch 1926 May 11 1/5

Daily Graphic 1926 May 10 - 12, 14, 15 1/5

Daily News 1926 May 14, 15 1/5

Daily Sketch 1926 May 3, 15 1/5

Emergency Act prosecutions (photocopy of column from paper) 1928 Oct. 1/5

'Communists sent to prison' report on prosecution of CP members in Leigh area (See also Emergency Act prosecutions in sleeve 1)
1/5
Sunday Press

Sunday Express May 9 1/5A

Sunday Gazette May 9 1/5A

Sunday Pictorial May 9, 16 1/5A

Sunday Special May 9 1/5A

Observer May 9, 16 1/5A

The Spectator May 8 1/5A

New Statesman "This unnecessary strike" May 8 Articles on General Strike May 15 1/5A

Sunday Worker Feb 28, Mar 15, Apr 25, May 11 1/5A

Lansbury's Labour Weekly May 22 1/5A
London-wide Press

The Star
1/6

Evening News
1/6

Evening Standard;
1/6

Latest London Bulletin
1/6
London local papers, documents

No. 1 area strike committee (Intelligence message)
1/7

London Strike News - National Unemployed Workers Committee May 11 1/7

Battersea Council of Action May 11, 14 1/7

Bethnal Green Workers Bulletin & Bethnal Green TC/LP
1/7

Bow and Bromley
1/7

Brixton Free Press May 6 1/7

Camberwell NUAA Union branch. Note re members still working manuscript 1926 12/5 1/7

2 letters from R. A. Mann, chair strike committee, painters working but carpenters solid
1/7

Deptford Official Strike Bulletin May 26 1/7

East End Worker Oct 23 1/7

ETU Letter call for mass picket to stop return to work at Electric Dynamo, London SE 15 1926 12/5 1/7

Hackney Workers Bulletin May 7 1/7

Note (in envelope) on typewriter bought by Hackney Strike Committee and used for its bulletins
1/7

Holborn Worker official organ Holborn LP & TC 1926 Nov/ 1927 Feb 1/7

Holborn LP & TC leaflet Celebrating Miners Relief fund, Clerkenwell Rd, London 1926 17/6 1/7

Holborn LP & TC leaflet, 'Another push for the miners', Clerkenwell Rd, London. Speakers: S. Saklatvala and Alex Gossip 1926 10/12 1/7

India Dock
1/7

Islington Bulletin May 7, 10, 11, 14 1/7

Lewisham Council of Action.News of strike action 2 separate sheets 1926 10/5 1/7

London Hospital
1/7

News Daily Streatham S.London May 10, 11 1/7

Poplar Council of Action & T & G area no.1 Poplar
1/7

St. Pancras strike bulletin
1/7

Southend, Westcliff and Leigh Review May 12 1/7

Tooting and Balham Gazette May 6, 12 1/7

Wandsworth Boro News & Wandsworth strike bulletin May 6, June 1 1/7

The News Bulletin May 6 1/7

Topical Chatter May 6 1/7

Wireless News Bulletin No.2, May 6
1/7

"Stand all as one", "How the struggle goes"
1/7
General Strike Committees. List of secretaries, TU committees, offices
1/7
Manchester area papers, documents
Manchester Borough LP. Miners relief collecting sheet
1/8
Manchester Guardian News Bulletin p1 missing; pp 2/3 ok
1/8
Manchester Evening News Bulletin
May 6, 8, 10, 12 - 14 1/8
Manchester Evening News Unsigned article on effect on Manchester of General Strike 1976 3/5 1/8
Manchester Evening Mail
May 12, 14 1/8
Manchester Gazette no.1
May 6 1/8
Manchester Guardian Article by Christopher Farman, + Melissa Barker account of her father's personal struggle with the Great Western Railway
1/8
Manchester Guardian Getting the record straightened 1969 18/3 1/8
Manchester Guardian Saturday page on 1926 Chris Farman 1976 1/5 1/8
Bolton Evening News
May 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 - 12 1/8
Jenkins, Alfred 'Bolton in 1926' ,Jenkins, Alfred personal account of General Strike
1/8
Tyldesley Council of Action

1/8
Wigan workers News Bulletin
May 11 1/8
Wigan Coal & Iron Co. Management call to abandon strike 1926 9/10 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Statement on basis for calculation of wages, 1p 1926 22/10 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Correspondence with Atherton branch, Miners Federation from coalowners
1/8
Atherton Collieries. Fletcher Burrows & Co. 1926 May 4, 8, 15, 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Laburnum Spinning Co, Atherton. Letter from company sec. to R.W.Jones TUC sec.
re withdrawal of transport for workpeople at the mills. typescript
1926 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Notice from coal owners. Re vote to restart work after strike 1926 27/9 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Notice to our workpeople. Re ballot to strike from coalowners 1926 1/10 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Workers' Weekly 'One man, three lamps', news cutting re strike at colliery 1926 8/10 1/8
Atherton Collieries. Correspondence. Strike committee and management
1/8
Altrincham Altrincham strike sheet May 7, 9, 10 - 13, 1/9
Altrincham Emergency Act prosecutions. Trial of communist see also 'The Times' in sleeve 4 1926 18/5 1/9
Midland papers & documents
Birmingham Post
May 6 1/10
Birmingham Central Strike Bulletin
May 5, 10, 12 1/10
Midland Daily Tribune Post-strike odd issues June - September 1/10
Nuneaton Observer
Jul 30 1/10
Nuneaton Central Strike Committee papers Folders 1, 2, Despatch riders'certificate & letter explaining reasons for issue of certificates 1926 LB/1
Nottingham Strike Bulletins
LB/1

Transcripts of tape recordings by Peter Wyncott with Nottingham veterans of 1926
LB/1
Oxford Council of Action 'Stand firm, Workers'
1/10
North-East & Yorks
Newcastle Council of Action Workers Chronicle May 8 1/11
Newcastle Daily Chronicle
May 3, 24 1/11
Newcastle Daily Journal
May 5 1/11
North East group for Study of Labour History Newcastle Workers Chronicle
1/11
Hull Evening News
May 5 1/11
Sheffield CP District Committee Special strike bulletin May 7, 8, 11, 12 1/11
Yorkshire Observer Yorkshire Observer strike bulletin May 13 1/11
Northumberland- Durham Joint Strike Committee Report. The General Strike 1926. 1926 LB/1

Folder of documents re strike in NE England, Newcastle upon Tyne TUC
LB/1
Scotland papers & documents
Scottish Worker STUC May 12 1/12
Emergency Press (Glasgow) May 5 1/12
Forward (Glasgow) May 22 1/12
Glasgow General Strike research group. Summary of information on origin, development &
termination of strike with special emphasis on events in Glasgow (typescript)

1/12
Kirkcaldy Mail
May 11 1/12
Scottish TUC 3rd Congress, report on General Strike 1927 LB/1
Other documents

'Cornwall and the General Strike' Jenkins, Alfred typescript
1/13
Emergency Bulletin Electric light and power.
1/13

General Strike 1926 'What caused this tremendous event?' anonymous typescript 1950 c. 1/13

General Strike Handwritten notes + personal letter 1973 3/10 1/13

The German Ultra-Left. Extract from 'Communist International' article by Clara Zetkin 1926 30/10 1/13

Latest strike bulletin May 8 1/13

Latest strike news May 5 1/13

Latest strikegrams May 7 1/13

Letter (unsigned) calling for TUC to cut electricity etc. May 11 1/13
Picketing Notice re appointing of pickets to all main road entrances to town (unnamed) typed note signed Thomas Lowe (Chair) Thomas Peacock (Secretary)
1/13
Tames, Richard. Cover of folder re facsimiles of documents on General Strike. Jackdaw Publications


The Young Striker May 6 1/13
Anti-strike and Government statements
52nd A.A. Brigade R.A. scheme for formation of Civil Constabulary Reserve
1/14
Baldwin Stanley, Message from the Prime Minster. Leaflet. Obverse side has official government statement on victimisation. 1926 1/14
Baldwin Stanley, To all workers in all trades, additional guarantees, (together with) 1926 1/14

The British Legion and the National Crisis, signed b Col. C. E. Heath, general secretary, leaflet
1/14
Baldwin Stanley, Message from Prime Minister 'The great hold-up. TUC threat to nation'.
1/14

Anti- Socialist Union Press May 11 1/14

Coal Industry leaflet no.2 'Labour leaders'
1/14

Fascist Evening News May 5 1/14
Metropolitan Police Special constable appeal
1/14
Organisation for the maintenance of supplies Notice re objects of organisation May 1926 1/14

Letter on objects of organisation - to enrol volunteers in case of strike May 1926 1/14

Possible Concordat - Churches Appeal
1/14

Public Opinion. Arthur Birnage. Decision to stop the Press a great folly
1/14
Regent Press Regent Press strike bulletin. The Crisis
1/14
Royal Artillery Scheme for formation of civil constabulary reserve typescript 1926 8/5 1/14
Pamphlets
Bob Dent Lessons of General Strike (2 copies) 1973 SB/1
A.J. Cook The Nine Days
SB/1

TU movement and the General Strike. Sussex tapes 1975. Educational Productions, East Ardsley, Wakefield WF3 2JN -------- text - but no tape!
SB/1
Hamilton Fyfe Behind the scenes of the General Strike, Labour Publishing Co. (2 copies) 1926 SB/1
Tom Brown The British General Strike. Freedom Press New York (2 copies) 1943 SB/1
Tom Brown The Social General Strike - Why 1926 failed. Workers Socialist Federation c.1942 SB/1
Jack Tanner The Social General Strike, Workers Socialist Federation 1919 SB/1
John Pepper Der Streik und der General-Verrat in England , Hamburg (in German) 1926 SB/1

Thesis on General Strike for CPGB 8th Congress October 1926 SB/1

Reds and the General Strike C.B. CPGB June 1926 SB/1
Ernie Trory Soviet trade unions and the General Strike. Crabtree Press (2 copies) 1975 SB/1
Ernie Trory Brighton and the General StrikeCrabtree Press (2 copies) 1975 SB/1
Trevor Davies Bolton May 1926 (for Bolton TC, Dept of Employment Libraries, accessed (2 copies)) Sep 1977
W.Midlands Dist Nine Days in Birmingham Birmingham Public Libraries WEA 1976 SB/1
Young Socialists Young Socialists Speakers Notes General Strike in Great Britain.
SB/1

General Strike for Industrial Freedom IWW anniversary Chicago June 1946 SB/1

The test of trade unionism published by Bemrose & Sons, London & Derby
SB/1
Sheffield University The Miners Strike in South Yorkshire1926 J.A.Peck, (2 copies) 1970 SB/2
IWW The General Strike IWW Chicago 1982 SB/2
CPGB The Reds & the General Strike
SB/2
A.J. Bennett - CPGB The General Council & the General Strike 1926 SB/2
CPGB Harry Pollitt, a tribute 1960 SB/2
All-Russian Council of Trade Unions Red Money (foreword by A. J. Cook 1926 SB/2
Chris Wrigley The General Strike 1926 in local history, Loughborough University 1980 SB/2
TUC General Council Mining Dispute National Strike 1926 & 1927 SB/2
TUC National Strike Special conference 1927 SB/2
Palme Dutt The meaning of the General Strike 1926 SB/2
R.J. Hills,York University. General Strike in York 1926 (2 copies) 1980 SB/2
The Daily News Strike fortnight (3 copies)
SB/3
Lansbury's Labour Weekly The secret history of the General Strike & the blackleg state 1926 SB/3
Dan Chater The Great Strike and after
SB/3
Fenner Brockway Diary of the General Strike, Socialist Review 1926 SB/3
National Minority Movement Trade Union Leadership
SB/3
Socialist Review R. MacDonald, F.Brockway etc. editor J. Strachey 1926 June SB/3

General Strike 1926 Leon Trotsky, Militant 1976 SB/3
TU Defence Committee Government's attack on TU law Arthur Henderson c.1927 SB/3
TU Defence Committee Labour opens its attack Henderson, Bevin, Citrine, 1927 SB/3
Harry Wicks General Strike
SB/3
Eccles Trades & Labour Council 30th annual report 1926 SB/3
50th Anniversary celebrations - 1976
Labour Research review of 'General Strike 1926' by Jeffrey Skelley and 'General Strike' by Margaret Morris, 2 copies 1976 May LB/2
Guardian Saturday page '1926' 1976 May LB/2
Manchester Evening News General Strike Diary + cuttings & photos 1976 May 5 - 7 LB/2
South Essex CP, General Strike anniversary celebration 1976 15/2 LB/2
South Essex Dist. CP, Book list on 50th anniversary 1976 Feb LB/2
CPGB Yorkshire Dist. Fifty Years on, Leeds CP programme for Festival of Marxism Sheffield Polytechnic 1976 22-3/5/ LB/2
Ned Hewitt General Strike in Leicester c.1975 LB/2
Reg Groves, (Battersea Labour Party) General Strike in Battersea, (2 copies)
LB/2
Eddie & Ruth Frow Leaflet on talk on General Strike in Horwood General Block.
LB/2

New English Library illustrated booklet 50th anniversary 1976 LB/2
Labour Weekly Will Paynter review of 'The General Strike' by Margaret Morris. 1976 30/4 LB/2
Sussex University TU group, Programme delegate conference on 50th anniversary General Strike (includes facsimile of Will Dyson cartoon 'The advantage of blacklegging') 1976 23/5 LB/2
Tower Hamlets Libraries Dept. 50th anniversary exhibition 1976 June 3/5 LB/2
Wedgwood Memorial College lecture Alan Brown "The press and the General Strike" 1976 Aug LB/2
Sheffield City Libraries The General Strike in Sheffield, strike docs, intro by Bill Moore 1981, Reprinted with corrections 1986 LB/2

General Strike, 20 drawings by Andrew Turner, foreword Dai Francis, Journeyman Press 1977 LB/2
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston 1926/76 Exhibition, documents by Eddie and Ruth Frow 1976 LB/2
Glasgow AEU, 'Nine for the days of the General Strike' by John Lyons, foreword Hugh Scanlon
LB/2
Greater London Council 'Remember 1926' exhibition to commemorate 50th anniversary, Flower Market, Covent Garden 1976 July LB/2
National Union of Railwaymen & Railway Clerks Association
Metropolitan Railway Circular from R.H.Selby General Manager, urging return to work, Baker St. station 1926 8/5 LB/2
NUR General Strike news bulletin. Letter to secretaries of strike committees 1926 8/5 LB/2
NUR Horwich no.2 branch Letter to members re allowing distribution of coal 1926 10/5 LB/2
NUR Paddington. Open letter to Sir Felix Poole, Gen. Manager Gt. Western Railway 1926 June LB/2
Great Western Railway. Notice re re-instatement of staff at end of strike, Paddington 1926 13/5 LB/2
NUR No.2 bulletin, news of strike situation on railways 1926 10/5 LB/2
London and NE Railway. LNER News - Management
LB/2
London and NE Railway. Message from Chief General Manager, Sir Ralph Wedgwood 9/5/26 LB/2
Metropolitan Railway Management news

Communist Railway Workers NW London group. Railway manifesto 1926 LB/2

Railway Review May 14 LB/2
Railway Clerks Association Bradford. Correspondence re strike. Facsimiles of letters dated 1926 12/5, 27/5, 19/8, 88/10 LB/2
Railway Clerks Association Railway Clerks Association & the General Strike. Statement to members by A.G. Walkden, Gen. Secretary 1926 July LB/2
Railway Clerks Association Railway Clerks Association & the General Strike, report of coal dispute, following strike (facsimile of original)
LB/2
Bound Volumes
CPGB Workers' Bulletin nos. 1-10 May 4-14 1926 BV/1

Copy of questionnaire sent out by Labour Research Department to local Trades Councils and completed replies
BV/1

Daily wireless bulletins issued by BBC 1926 BV/2
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