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Military hardware in use in the UK general strike of 1926 |
UK general strike
- Full article: 1926 United Kingdom general strike
- Full article: 1926 United Kingdom general strike
In May 1926, the TUC called a general strike, which lasted 10 days. Lord Reith of the newly formed BBC assisted the UK establishment by writing anti-union speeches for the Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. These were broadcast them to the nation, while the labor leaders were not allowed to state their case until the strike was over.[1]
Events
Event | Start | End | Description |
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Prohibition | 17 January 1920 | 5 December 1933 | The banning of drinkable alcohol (ethanol). This served multiple hypocritical purposes, much like the later "war on drugs". High on the list, as usual, were the private interests of the small clique who arranged it. |
1926 United Kingdom general strike | 3 May 1926 | 12 May 1926 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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McKinsey & Company | Commercial | corporate hit-men to loot the economy | |
Koç Holding | The largest industrial conglomerate in Turkey, | ||
Long Island University | Private university in the U.S. state of New York. | ||
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | |||
Milliyet | Newspaper | Turkish newspaper with Bilderberg habit | |
Empire Marketing Board | Propaganda |
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Deaths
Title | Born | Died | Place of death | Cause of death | Summary | Description |
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Charles D. Lanier | 19 January 1837 | 6 March 1926 | Banker Deep state operative Businessperson | A Morgan man. | ||
E. W. Scripps | 18 June 1854 | 12 March 1926 | ||||
Meyer London | 29 December 1871 | 6 June 1926 | New York United States | Car crash | Politician | Socialist Congressman who voted against entry into World War I. Died prematurely in 1926, when struck by an automobile. |
Cleveland Dodge | 26 January 1860 | 24 June 1926 | Financier | The main donor to the US presidential campaign of Woodrow Wilson. | ||
George Makgill | 24 December 1868 | 16 October 1926 | London UK | Author Spook Propagandist | ||
Eugene Debs | 5 November 1855 | 20 October 1926 | United States Illinois Elmhurst | Firefighter Grocer Union organizer | “Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.” |
Births
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