1926 General Strike – Workers Taste Power
A
Accrington 101
Aldershot 103, 106
Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) 2, 12, 21, 150
American Federation of Labour (AFL) 122
Amalgamated Clothing Workers 122
Ammanford 52
Anglo-Russian Trade Union Committee 16, 37-39, 48, 61, 111, 138, 140, 145, 146-149, 153
Anthracite miners in South Wales 65
Arnot, R. Page 54, 92-95, 138
Ashton 80, 113
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) 58, 81, 124, 12 6
Asylum Workers, Union of 71
B
Baldwin, Stanley 1, 2, 6, 18, 20-24, 28-30, 35, 51, 52, 54-55, 65-72, 76, 78, 85, 86-90, 92, 107, 114-115, 119, 123, 125-129, 135-136, 143, 152, 154, 157
Balfour, Lord 87
Banbury 97
Barrow 98
Bath 104
Beaverbrook, Lord 84-85
Belfast 2, 100
Belgian General Strike of 1893 34
Belgian General Strike of 1960-61 31
Benbow, William 31
Betjeman, John 116
Bevan, Aneurin 85
Beveridge, Sir William 58, 62-63
Bevin, Ernest 2, 19, 30, 35, 45, 48, 58, 72,79, 82, 90, 115, 123-124, 128-129, 137
Birkenhead, Lord 1, 70, 73, 128, 135, 151-153
Birmingham 98, 124, 131-135
Black Friday 10, 12, 17-18, 23-24, 28, 35, 132
Blunkett 48
Bolsheviks 14, 34, 40, 68, 89, 110, 128
Bolton 99, 101
Boothby, Robert 112
Brailsford, Henry 146
Bramley, Fred 17, 39, 44-45
Branting, 32
Bricklayers Union 18
Bristol 80
Bristol Bulletin 102
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) 28,76, 83, 88-89, 107-108, 124, 132-133 British Gazette 76, 83, 85, 88-90, 105, 107,120-121, 124, 133
British Worker 78, 83, 88-90, 93, 102, 119, 120, 126, 129, 131, 133, 141 Brockway, Fenner 132, 135, 137
Bromley, John 71, 124, 126, 138, 150
Bukharin 16, 37, 61, 147
C
Camberwell 97
Cambridge 98
Cambuslang 100
Campbell, J.R. 19, 38, 44
Canterbury 99
Canterbury, Archbishop of 88-89
Cardiff 23, 70, 80, 97
Catholics 35, 88, 100
Central Telegraph Office 82
Chamberlain, Austin 54, 152
Chamberlain, Neville 128, 142
Chambers, Peter 158
Chartists 1, 31
Chatham 103
Chesterton, G.K. 116
Chinese Communist Party 110
Chopwell 92, 93, 95-96
Churchill, Winston 1, 20, 21, 23-24, 50, 51, 54, 70, 76, 78, 84-86, 88-89, 97, 101, 104-105, 108, 114-115, 121, 125, 135, 152
Citrine, Walter 2, 6, 17, 23, 58, 71-72, 76, 79, 82, 150, 159
Clyde, 80, 157
Clyde Workers Committee 8
Clynes, J.R. 45, 54, 110
Coal Commission 9, 65, 119
Coatbridge 100
Colchester 103
Cole, G.D.H. 116, 152
Combination Laws of 1799-1800 153
Committee for a Workers’ International 121,
Communist International (Comintern) 3, 16, 37-38, 40, 49, 111, 140, 144, 146-149
Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 3, 5-6, 12-16, 18-20, 22, 30, 36-41, 43-50, 52-54, 57, 59-62, 64-67, 83, 85, 92-93, 95-96, 98-102, 105-107, 109-113, 116-118, 122-124, 133, 135, 137, 139, 140, 143-149, 153
Communist Review 38, 144-145, 149
Conservative Party (Tories) 19, 26, 52, 60,99, 113, 142, 157
Cook, A.J. Arthur 2, 17, 18, 22-23, 27, 29,30, 35-36, 38-39, 44, 51, 53, 57, 59, 62-64, 66-68, 70, 72, 86, 92, 105, 109, 120, 124, 127, 138, 140-141, 143-144, 149, 150, 153
Co-operative Movement 36
Councils of Action 2, 10, 11, 15, 22, 39, 40, 52, 62, 67, 83, 90, 91, 92, 95, 98, 100, 101, 104, 112, 114, 127
Court of Inquiry 21, 23
Coventry 99, 124
Cowdenbeath 102
Cramp, 29, 47, 71, 131, 157
Crewe 105
Crook, 51
Croydon 103
D
Daily Express 54, 76
Daily Herald 24, 30, 55, 69, 76, 88, 148
Daily Mail 75-78, 84
Daily Telegraph 69, 84
Dalton, Hugh 142
Danielsson, Axel 32
Dartford Divisional Labour Party 113
Davidson, John 28, 92
Davies, Idris 95
Davies, Rhys 124
Dawes Plan 20-21
Denny and Dunipace 103
Derbyshire 133
Doncaster 98
Dover 98
Driberg, Tom 99, 116
Duke, Charles 132
Dunfermline 98
Durham 68, 92, 94, 142
E
East End 97, 102, 104, 106, 124
Eastern Valleys Joint Industrial Council 102
Eccleston Square 81, 89, 103, 125
Edinburgh 50, 98, 102, 104, 153
Elephant and Castle 97, 104
Emergency Powers Act (EPA) 11
Engels, Friedrich 22, 107
English Revolution 87, 91
Evening News 84
Evening Standard 84
F
Falkirk 102
Farnworth 101
Fascists 29, 54, 55, 71, 107, 149
Feather, Vic 5
Financial Times 48
First World War 7-8, 19, 31, 33, 93, 100, 110 , 122
Foot, Michael 85
Forward 60
France 4, 5, 31, 33, 37, 43, 80, 120, 155-156
France 1968 156
Furniture trades union 2
G
Gaitskell, Hugh 99, 116
Gallacher, Willie 38, 44
Garvin, J.L. 69
General and Municipal Workers Union 45
George V, King 23-24, 81, 110, 123
German Communist Party 20, 40, 148
Germany 4-5, 7, 18, 20, 31, 32-33, 37, 43, 111 , 12 2 , 14 9
Glasgow 8, 84, 98, 100-101, 104, 106, 118, 133, 136
Glorious Revolution of 1688 87
Gold Standard 20-21, 23
Goldbeaters Trade Society 82
Great Western Railway 81, 136
Greene, Graham 116
H
Halifax, Lord 128
Hamilton 100
Hankey, Maurice 23, 73
Hardy, George 40, 67, 144
Harwich 80
Henderson, Arthur 19, 20, 38, 66
Herbert Bell 93
Hicks, George 18, 23, 36, 38, 44, 48, 53, 109, 137-140, 144-145, 148, 153 Hodges, Frank 12, 17, 66
Houghton-le-Dale 105
Houghton-le-Spring 96
House of Commons 19, 23, 47, 85, 87, 89, 119, 123, 128-129, 135
House of Lords 125
Hull 106, 133, 137
Humber 80
Hutt, Allen 19, 109
I
Ilkeston 104, 134
Independent Labour Party (ILP) 24, 98, 132, 137, 146
India 59, 104
International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) 25, 37
International Miners’ Federation 122
International Transport Federation 122
Islington 132
J
Jackson, T.A. 60
Jaurès, Jean 33
Johnstone 100
Jones, Jack 125, 128
Joynson-Hicks, Sir William 24, 29, 104
June Pact 143, 150
K
Kapp Putsch 31, 122
Kensington Strike Bulletin 102
Kerensky 128
Kerrigan, Peter 118
Keynes, John Maynard 21
Kinnock, Neil 19, 25, 46, 48, 50
Kipling, Rudyard 86
Kirkwood, 44
Klugmann, James 39, 48, 113, 139
Kornilov 34
L
L’Humanité 32, 148
La Revue de Paris 51
Labour Monthly 41-45, 48, 50, 60, 64, 138
Labour Party 6, 10, 11, 16, 19, 24-26, 35-36, 39, 41-42, 44, 46, 47-50, 52-53, 57, 60, 63, 66, 71, 77, 79, 88, 93, 97, 99, 115, 119, 120, 124-125, 139, 142, 144, 152, 157
Labour Party National Executive Committee 4, 10, 42
Labour Party Conference1924 46
Labour Party Conference1925 46-48
Labour Research Department 62
Lanarkshire 100
Lancashire 55, 80, 99
Lansbury, George 44, 53, 55, 142
Lawrence, Susan 124
Le Temps 120
Leeds 104
Left Opposition 16, 37-38, 42, 61, 110, 112, 145-148
Lenin 14, 18, 25, 32, 52, 68, 110, 112-113, 118, 132, 138
Lewes 97
Lewis, Captain W.J. 55
Lewis, Cecil Day 116
Lewisham Council of Action 133, 137
Leyton 104
Liberals 19, 25-26, 58, 115, 123, 153
Lincoln 103, 104
Lintorn-Orman, Rotha 54
Liverpool 9, 25, 42, 46-52, 55, 60, 80, 86, 91, 94, 98, 104, 106, 107
Liverpool 47 councillors 50, 52
Liverpool City Council 24-25, 46
Liverpool Daily Post and Echo 94
Liverpool Provisional Council of Action 94, 98
Lloyd George, David 8-10, 19, 20, 28, 31, 85, 100, 115
LO (Swedish TUC) 32
London 9-10, 12, 25, 50, 53, 67, 72, 79, 80-81, 83-85, 88, 91-92, 97, 102-106, 116, 119, 123-124, 133, 136, 142, 153
London and North Eastern Railway 81
London docks 81, 105, 123
London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) 81, 134, 136
London Underground 81
Long Eaton 132
Luxemburg, Rosa 33
M
MacDonald, Ramsay 17-20, 24-25, 29, 36, 38, 43-44, 48, 53-54, 59, 64, 66, 72, 79, 88-89, 107, 111-112, 115, 119, 125, 128, 139
Manchester 76, 80, 97, 102, 104, 106, 132, 137
Manchester Guardian 76, 97, 137
Mann, Tom 22, 67
Marlowe, Thomas 75-76
Martin, Kingsley 84, 124
Marx, Karl 22, 30, 107, 111, 134, 154
Maxton, 44
May Day demonstration 79
McLean, John 100
Meath, Earl of 117
Mensheviks 14
Merseyside 94, 95
Merseyside Council of Action (MCA) 94-95
Merthyr 99
Methil 99, 103
Mexican Federation of Labour 122
Middlesbrough 80, 106
Militant 25, 42, 46-48, 50, 52-53, 93-94, 121 , 12 5
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain 12
Miners’ strike of 1984-85 1, 25, 88, 97
Ministry of Health 143
Moffat, Abe 102
Mond, Sir Alfred 47, 153
Monmouthshire 66, 102
Montgomery, General Sir Kerr 94
Mosley, Oswald 124, 134
Motherwell 100
Mountbatten, Lord 30
Murphy, J.T. 38, 40, 111-112, 117, 118
Mussolini, Benito 19, 54, 85-86, 104, 120-121
N
National Minority Movement (NMM) 22-23, 38-40, 44, 47, 57, 62, 64-65, 67, 83, 98-101, 140, 143-144, 149
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 142
New York Times 51
New York World 105, 119
Newbold, Walter 100
Newcastle 92, 93, 96, 101-102, 104
Newcastle Strike Committee 93
Newcastle Trades Council 93
Nine Elms Railway Depot 106
North-East 67, 91, 92-96, 98, 103-104, 114, 133
Northern Light 93, 96
Northumberland 92, 93-94
Northumberland, Duke of 54, 85
Nottingham 104, 105
Nottinghamshire Miners’ Association 153 NUR 2, 29, 71, 81, 98, 102, 106, 124, 131, 134, 150, 157
O
Observer, The 47, 69
October Revolution in 1917 14, 34, 61, 68
Organisation of Maintainence and Supply (OMS) 29-30, 54, 55, 81, 92, 115 Outram Press 136
Oxford 92, 98-99, 116, 133
Oxford Strike Committee 99
P
Palme Dutt, R. 41-42, 48, 60, 61, 138-139
Paris Commune 13
Parliamentary Labour Party 10, 19
Paul, William 50
Pentonville Five 5
Plymouth 97
Pollitt, Harry 22, 30, 40, 44, 48, 55
Pontefract 106
Poplar 104, 106
Portuguese Revolution 1974-76 76
POUM (the United Marxist Workers’ Party) 110
Pravda 89
Preston 105
Printers’ Union (NATSOPA) 76, 84
Protestants 100
Pugh, Arthur 72, 73, 76, 127, 128
Punch 134
Purcell, Alf 2, 18, 23, 36, 38, 41, 43-44, 48, 59, 109, 123, 137-140, 144, 148
R
Radek, Karl 42, 112
Rail and Maritime Union (RMT) 4
Railway clerks Association (RCA) 124
Reading, Lord 152
Rechberg, Arnold 121
Red Friday 7, 17, 20-21, 24-25, 27-28, 35, 41, 51, 58, 64, 110, 132, 149
Red International of Trade Unions (RILU) 37
Reith, Sir John 88, 132
Revolutionary Communist Party 93
Rhondda Borough Labour Party 47
Rotary Club 124
Rothermere, Lord 84
Roy, M.N. 41
Russian Communist Party 37, 61, 146
Russian General Strike of 1905 13
Russian Revolution, February 1917 113 Russian Revolution, October 1917 14,15,34, 61, 68 118
S
Saklatvala, 44, 85, 106
Samuel, Sir Herbert 58, 62-63, 66, 68-70,
73, 109, 119, 124-127, 132
Samuel Commission 58, 62-66, 141
Samuel Memorandum 128, 141
Sankey, Sir John 9, 58
Sankey Commission 9, 58, 62-63
Scotland 80, 99-103
Scottish Trades Union Congress 100
Seaham 142
Seamen’s Union 71, 123
Second International 33
Selby 103, 104
Seven Hours Act of 1919 152
Shaw, George Bernard 53
Sheffield 38, 98
Shinwell MP, Emmanuel 153
Shrewsbury 99
Simon, Sir John 123
Sir Kingsley Wood 94
Smethwick 134
Smillie, Robert 32, 100, 150
Smith, Herbert 23, 27, 62-63, 66, 70, 72, 120, 126-127, 141, 149, 150
Socialist Party 4, 13, 42, 77
Solicitors’ Journal 123
Sotsial-Democrat 32
South Wales 52, 64, 67-68, 70, 80, 86, 95
South Wales Evening Express 86
South Wales Miners’ Federation 52
Southsea 105
Soviet Union (USSR) 49, 61, 122, 146, 147
Soviets 13-15, 34, 51, 98, 101, 112, 114
Sowerby Bridge 103
Spencer, George 153
St Pancras 103, 132
St Pancras Bulletin 102
Stalin, Josef 16, 37-38, 40, 60-61, 68, 110, 118 , 147
Star, The 84
Stewart, Bob 116, 146
Stoke 104
Swales, A.B. ‘Alonso’ 2, 36, 38, 43-44, 48, 73, 90
Swansea 23, 80, 105, 133
Swansea Strike Committee 133
Sweden 32, 33, 51
Swedish General Strike of 1909 31
Swindon 103
T
Tanner, Jack 150
Tawney, R.H. 9, 62
Taylor, A.J.P. 99, 116
Thomas, J.H. ‘Jimmy’ 2, 6, 11-12, 17, 32, 35-36, 39, 44-45, 48, 57, 64-67, 69, 70-71, 73, 78, 82, 89-90, 101, 109, 110-111, 120, 123-128, 133, 135-136, 139, 142, 144-145, 148-150, 157
Tillett, Ben 19, 138
Times, The 29, 44, 47, 48, 55, 69, 77, 106, 108, 121
Tomsky 45
Trade Disputes Act (1906) 66, 123
Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act (1927) 152
Trades Union Congress (TUC) 6, 10-11, 13, 14-17, 22-23, 25, 30, 32, 36, 38-41, 43-46, 57-59, 63, 65-66, 69, 72-73, 75-76, 78-79, 81-82, 84, 88-90, 92- 93, 97-98, 101-103, 105, 107-109, 113-114, 119-123, 125-128, 132-135, 137, 141, 143, 146-148, 150-153, 158
Trades Union Congress (TUC), General Council 2, 11 , 13-14, 16, 25, 30, 39, 40, 43-45, 57-59, 62, 64-65, 67, 69-73, 77-78, 82-84, 89, 91, 97-98, 100-101, 105, 107, 109, 114, 119, 121-122, 124, 126-128, 131-133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143-150, 153
Trades Union Congress (TUC),Bournemouth conference of September 1926 150, 158
Trades Union Congress (TUC), Industrial Committee 36, 64-67, 69, 72
Trades Union Congress (TUC), Parliamentary Committee 10
Trades Union Congress (TUC), Scarborough conference of 1925 41-42, 44-46, 49-51, 62, 149
Trades Union Congress (TUC), Conference September 1928 153
Transport and General Workers’ Union 2, 35, 46, 125
Triple Alliance 8, 11-13, 16, 18, 21
Trotsky, Leon 11, 14, 16, 19, 33-34, 37-38, 40-41, 46, 49, 60-61, 77, 89, 109-110, 115, 118, 140, 145-149
Tyne 80
U
United States 7, 31, 49, 122, 143
W
Webb, Beatrice 18, 25, 136, 142
Webb, Sidney 9
Wedgwood, Josiah 29
Westminster, Archbishop of 88
Westminster Worker 102
Widnes 98
Wilkinson, Ellen 88
Willesden 103
Williams, Evan 24
Wilson, Havelock 71, 123
Winterton, Lord 29
Wolverhampton 133
Workers’ Chronicle 93, 133
Workers’ Daily 79, 106
Workers’ Weekly 19, 39, 59, 60, 61, 66-67, 76, 111, 144, 147-150 Wright, 101
Y
Yeovil 104 Yorkshire 23, 103
Z
Zinoviev 16, 18, 37, 68, 75, 112, 114, 120,
139 Zinoviev letter 18, 75, 120
