History - General Strike

Question 1

How many workers were on strike?

1 mark

Answer 1

2.5 million

Question 2

How long did it last?

1 mark

Answer 2

9 days

Question 3

What was the TIA?

4 marks

Answer 3

Triple industrial alliance made up of miners, transport workers and railway men

Question 4

Why was coal less important after 1918?

3 marks

Answer 4

End of war
Coal not needed for war effort
Other countries producing coal at lower prices

Question 5

What happened to the coal industry after WW1?

1 mark

Answer 5

De-nationalised / privatised again

Question 6

What happened on Black Friday?

3 marks

Answer 6

15 April railway Union refused to act on the very day of the strike so the strike failed

Question 7

What happened on red Friday?

3 marks

Answer 7

Conservative government to give a 9 month subsidy to help pay miners wages

Question 8

What would happen 9 months after red Friday?

4 marks

Answer 8

Subsidy would cease
Hours would go up
Pay would go down possibly by as much as 13%

Question 9

What was the Samuel commission?

Answer 9

Set up to investigate problems in the mining industry

Question 10

What did the Samuel commission find out?

2 marks

Answer 10

Xx

Question 11

Who was the leader of the miners?

1 mark

Answer 11

Arthur Cooke

Question 12

What was the miners’ motto?

1 mark

Answer 12

‘Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day’

Question 13

What event in Russia made the government worry about how far the strike would develop?

4 marks

Answer 13

1917
Revolution
Tsar and government forced out of power by new communist government

Question 14

List four organisational tactics that the government planned to try and limit the impact of the strike?

4 marks

Answer 14

Any of…

Question 15

Which of the newspapers supported the strikers?

1 mark

Answer 15

The British worker

Question 16

Which newspaper supported the government and attacked the strikers?

1 mark

Answer 16

The British gazette

Question 17

Describe 3 ways in which the TUC wanted the strikers to operate?

3 marks

Answer 17

Come out in stages
Public health
Medical and food workers not to strike
Public not to be put at risk

Question 18

Why would the TUC want to make this code of conduct about the way the strikers operated?

2 marks

Answer 18

To keep the public on their side and show the government that is was an industrial dispute not a revolution or political threat

Question 19

How many people came out on strike on the first day?

1 mark

Answer 19

Millions

Question 20

Where did clashes take place between the police and the strikers?

3 marks

Answer 20

London
Newcastle
Glasgow

Question 21

Most areas were peaceful; why?

1 mark

Answer 21

Neither police nor the strikers wanted violence

Question 22

How many strikers were arrested for disorder?

1 mark

Answer 22

Over 5,000

Question 23

Why did the TUC call the strike off?

2 marks

Answer 23

Felt they were losing control of the strike and it was becoming a threat to the government

Question 24

When did the last miners return to work and why?

2 marks

Answer 24

November 1926

Hunger and poverty

Question 25

What happened to many strike participants?

2 marks

Answer 25

victimised and blacklisted by employers

Forced to sign a letter promising not to join a trade union

Question 26

What happened to numbers belonging to trade unions?

4 marks

Answer 26

Fell from 7.9 million in 1919 to below 4 million in 1930

Question 27

What did the trade disputes of 1927 state?

2 marks

Answer 27

All general strikes and ‘sympathy

Question 28

In what year was the general strike ?

1 mark

Answer 28

1926