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Subject ID:
2010419_170598
Subject Year:
Copyright:
Garforth Historical Society
Class number:
GARFORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY C72
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Description:
August 1919.
This image shows strike breakers at Sisters' Pit (Garforth Colliery) during a miners' strike in 1919. Police protection is being given to the workers, including a sailor who had been drafted in. This strike was one of a number of industrial disputes over wages and conditions in the pits in the years following the First World War, which culminated in the General Strike of 1926; by this time the Sisters Pit had closed but Trench Pit in Garforth was affected. Photograph courtesy of Miss M. Simpson.
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