Industrial Action Collection (#3)

The Railway Strike - Meeting on Tower Hill, 1919, 1920. Artist: CRW Nevinson
The Railway Strike - Meeting on Tower Hill, 1919, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Female telephone operators on strike in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1919. One of many strikes that broke out in the United States in 1919

The Boston Police Strike, Massachusetts, USA, September 1919. A loyal policeman instructing a mounted State Guardsman. The majority of Bostons police force went out on strike on on 9 September 1919

Girl employees of Woolworths five and dime store, West Fourteenth Street, New York, USA, 1937. Sleeping on the floor of the store during their strike in March 1937

State troops to the rescue in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 9 September 1919. Artist
State troops to the rescue in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1919. A Company going on duty during the citys Police Strike, which broke out on 9 September 1919

The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, Belfast, Ireland, 1907. Artist: AE Brown
The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Sussex Regiment, Belfast, Ireland, 1907. Guarding the docks during the dock strike of 1907

La Grève - small plate, c1875. Creator: Félicien Rops
La Greve - small plate, c1875

The scene of the Coal Strike: A typical South Wales coat mine, 1915. On 15 July 1915 about 200, 000 coalminers in south Wales went on strike

The Coal Strike: Mr. Lloyd George addressing the miners representatives at Cardiff, 1915. On 15 July 1915 about 200, 000 coalminers in south Wales went on strike

Featherstone riots: the soldiers firing on the people, 1893 (1906). Artist: Arthur Salmon
Featherstone riots: the soldiers firing on the people, 1893 (1906). Two miners from the Yorkshire town were killed when troops opened fire during a strike

The Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1854, (1886). Artist: WJ Smedley
The Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1854, (1886). The Eureka Stockade was a miners revolt in 1854. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran

Barthelemy Thimonnier, 19th century French inventor, [1907]. Thimmonier (1793-1857) patented the first sewing machine to be put into practical use, in Paris in 1830

Riot by railroad workers at Martinsburg on the Baltimore-Ohio Railroad, USA, 1877
Riot by Baltimore-Ohio Railroad workers at Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA, 1877. The riot occurred after workers went on strike because the company cut their wages

London Dockers Strike, September 1889. Among the aims of the strike was the establishment of a minimum wage of 6d (2.5 pence per hour) but it failed

London dock labourers strike, 1889. Scenes along the strikers procession. Among the aims of the strike was the establishment of a minimum wage of 6d (2.5p) per hour, but it failed

Laundresses strike, 1891. A strikers leader addressing a meeting in Hyde Park, London. Cartoon from Punch. (London, 27 June 1891)

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