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Great Dock Strike Begins

Everybody out! Dock workers start a strike to improve pay, bringing the nation to a halt

Non-Fiction 1924 1 mins Silent

Overview

What's up dock? The nation's dock workers stage a walk out, demanding an extra two shillings a day. This coverage by the Topical Budget newsreel foreshadows the unsympathetic portrayal it would give to the General Strike two years later. After ten days the strikers' demands were met by the incumbent minority Labour government.

Original title

Great Dock Strike Begins Topical Budget 652-1

Genres

Non-Fiction

Country

United Kingdom

Language

No Dialogue with English subtitles

Subjects

Docks

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