Strike Collection (page 9)

The General Strike - clearing up Hyde Park 1926
Clearing up in Hyde Park after the end of the General Strike: packing blankets used by volunteers for return to army stores

The General Strike - demobilisation of volunteers 1926
Colonel St. John Fox, Commandant of the Headquarters Central Division of the Metropolitan Special Constabulary Reserve, addressing the division (including regulars)

Argentine Guitarists
Argentinian guitarists strike a masculine pose, one foot on a rock, as they play a duet together while their coy womenfolk hide from the camera, South America. Date: 1930s

Women helped during the Great Strike 1926
In Mrs Loefflers canteen at Scotland House. Lady volunteers, including Lady Louis Mountbatten, feeding Special Constables, who had come to Scotland Yard to report, while on duty

The General Strike - lorry transporting passengers
A lorry-load of Londoners in Kingsway, returning home after a days work during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

The General Strike - distributing the countrys food
Volunteers save the situation: Undergraduate Railway Workers. Illustration by ILN special artist, Steven Spurrier depicting the successful distribution of the countrys food during the General Strike

The General Strike - Sphere emergency number
Front cover of The Sphere emergency number issued during the General Strike. Photograph shows mounted police controlling crowds at Elephant and Castle in South London

The General Strike - reading wireless bulletins 1926
Londoners reading the latest news from wireless bulletins issued at Marconi House in the Strand, London during the General Strike

The General Strike - Carrying On 1926
Montage of sketches by ILN Special Artist, Bryan De Grineau showing how volunteers, specials and motorists saved the situation during the General Strike of May 1926

The General Strike - hitching a lift
The Private Motorist does his bit to help people reach their work: An owner-driver at Southfields taking girls aboard. Girls hitching a ride to work during the General Strike

Handing in his lamp
1920 photo showing a Staffordshire miner handing in his lamp before the October 16 coal strike. About one million miners went on strike in aid of wage increases. Date: 1920

Francis Place
FRANCIS PLACE English self-made businessman and reformer; activist for the right to strike. Author of pamphlets and articles on social and economic questions. Date: 1771 - 1854

Communist Demo, USA
A communist demonstration in New York, U.S.A. with banners reading Strike for a 40 hour 5 day week! and Don t starve - fight, etc. Date: early 1930s

Ripman Dancing Girls
Four artistic girls of the Ripman School of Dancing, London, strike a pose. Date: early 1930s

Mount Fuji, Japan - Reproduction of a woodcut by Hokusai - Fuji above the lightning. from the series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Date: circa 1831

Wife despairs at Husbands awful choice of attire and colour - " Strike me pink!" Date: circa 1940s

Temporary points maintenance - Army - French strike of 1912
Strike on the Northern French Railways in 1912. Bridge at Briche, a control switch being operated by temporary railwaymen - the French Army! Date: 1912

France - Strike of the Western (State) railwaymen - soldiers occupying the Gare Saint-Lazare in improvised conditions. The significance of the five franc coin appears to be the amount requested by

Playbill postcard for Alfs Button
The most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year

Lightning during a thunderstorm - Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba
Lightning strike during a thunderstorm - Morro Castle, Havana, Cuba Date: circa 1910s

Hawker Siddeley HS1179E strike fighter study

Hawker Siddeley HS1179D strike fighter study

Hawker Siddeley HS1179 strike fighter study

The view from under the wing of a Supermarine Spitfire FRXVIII at Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaya, as an ammunition truck arrives during preparations for a strike by 60 Fighter Group against

Spain (1917). Court martial against the persons

Spain (1917). General strike. Repression of the army

Spain (1911). Strike in Vizcaya. Pablo Iglesias between the working strikers

SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1919). Madrid. Tramway
" SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1919). Madrid. Tramway strike. Civil Guards charging against some strikers that were trying to stop a car

SPAIN. Barcelona. Metallurgists strike in the

SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1917). General strike. Machine gun post in Cuatro Caminos district

Spain (1917). General strike. The army proclamates the martial law (August)

SPAIN. Madrid. Spain (1919). Tramway strike. Guards dispersing the strikers simulating to shoot them at the Magallanes station

Spain (19th c. ). Soldiers of the hunters battalion
Spain (19th c.). Soldiers of the hunters battalion of Puerto Rico used in the harvest during a strike in Jerez de la Frontera. Etching

The strike of Creusot of 1870. Meeting of factory workers in the pay moment. Engraving. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Spain. Barcelona. Metalworkers strike. Workers leaving the workshops of La Maquinista Terrestre y Marд ima, 29th September 1910

The General Strike - convoy of meat supplies
An armoured convoy with meat supplies passing Bank en route for Smithfield Market during the General Strike. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts

Roman lightning exorcist attending to a tree
The Romans had priests named strufertarii whose duty it was to exorcise trees which had been struck by lightning. Date: BCE

GLC-LFB Refuse collection strike and rubbish fires
The extended refuse collection strike in the early 1970s resulted in piles of rubbish and uncollected waste lying for weeks in London streets

A strike preventive. Illustration shows Puck talking to a laborer who is sitting at home, on strike; Puck shows him a paper that states: Cost of the steel strike to the workingman $10, 000, 000

Where will it strike next?. Illustration shows a comet labeled Allds Investigation striking a planet labeled Albany Legislature causing it to explode among planets labeled Aldrich, Penrose, Payne

Two men, one on his hands and knees crawling, the other is sitting on the first mans back, facing forward, holding a paddle over his head, about to strike the man on his exposed buttocks

The General Strike, 1926: volunteers
Are we downhearted? The answer is Negative. A page from The Tatler, applauding the magnificent response which all classes of Society made to the Governments call for volunteers in the wake of

Valentines Postcard - Matchless Valentine
Cupid strikes a match of love, casting his spell on two sweethearts... Though you may set these all alight, My heart is safe you know; For that has been aflame for you Sweetheart, long long ago

Kern County, California. Undernourished cotton pickers child listening to speeches of organizer at strike meeting to raise wages from seventy-five cents to ninety cents a hundred pounds

Guardsmen protecting station during railway strike
Armed guardsmen in bearskins protecting a platform and railway lines during the railway strike. The location is believed to be Clapham Junction, London. 1911

Soldiers asleep in railway carriage during rail strike
During the 1911 rail strike two soldiers of the South Staffordshire Regiment take a nap in one of the unused railway carriages. 1911

Police and strikers during railway strike, Dublin
Police holding strikers back to allow non-union men to pass to Kingsbridge Station (now known as Heuston Station) in Dublin, Ireland. 1911

Refilling engine tender during rail strike
During the rail strike a platform inspector and guards help to fill an engine tender with coal. 1911

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