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Politics and class conflict in the 1920's

Bevin's statement on the General Strike to T&GWU Area Secretaries Committee, 27 May 1926 [13pp]. This statement was made two weeks after the TUC General Council had called off the strike, leaving the miners to fight the employers' lock-out alone. Bevin is clearly trying to present his role in the strike, and its manifest failure to save the miners. His comments on the false promises of government and on bitter battles to reinstate striking T&G men, especially those in clerical grades after the return to work, are especially interesting.