coal industry: end of ww1

Question 1

strikes pre-war

Answer 1

-1910 and 1914: industrial problems led to strikes
-1919: war provided temporary economic boom but pre-war problems would resurface

Question 2

end of WW1

Answer 2

-mine owners believed demand for coal continue post war
-hoped government would continue to control and keep nationalisation
-sankey commission recommended nationalisation but Lloyd George rejected

Question 3

no coal boom at end of the war

Answer 3

-lack of invesment
-british mines narrow and old: high p costs
-former pre-war markets used electricity and oil
-former customers gone elsewhere