Great Dock Strike Begins

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

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.