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First Day - Tuesday 4 May
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Dock Pickets
Dock Pickets
Dispatch riders waiting outside Transport House
Dispatch riders waiting outside Transport House

Click on a link below to view documents and newspapers from the first day of the strike.

TUC Official Bulletin No. 1

Wireless Bulletin, 9pm

Daily Herald

Daily Express

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The British Worker, 10 May 1926 Food lorry with an armoured car escort
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