Attlee opposed the 1926 General Strike, believing that strike action should not be used as a political weapon.

However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.

In 1842, a General Strike involving cotton workers and colliers was organised through the Chartist movement which stopped production across Great Britain.

* 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

Strikers gathering in Tyldesley in the 1926 General Strike in the U. K.

* 1926 – UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends.

* 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins.

Trade unions were strong in the city, in which a famous General Strike was declared from May 1 to June 6, 1908.

Enacted in the aftermath of the Winnipeg General Strike, Section 98 dispensed with the presumption of innocence in outlawing potential threats to the state: specifically, anyone belonging to an organization that officially advocated the violent overthrow of the government.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

* May 4 – The British General Strike begins at Midnight in support of the coal strike.

** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends ( the strike began on May 3 ).

* February 6 – The Seattle General Strike begins.

** The Seattle General Strike ends when Federal troops are summoned by the State of Washington's Attorney General.

* May 17 – The Committee of One Thousand forms to oppose the Winnipeg General Strike.

** Winnipeg General Strike: Royal Northwest Mounted Police fire a volley of bullets into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two.

* Various strikes occur in the United States: Strike of US railroad workers ; The Longshoreman's strike ; in addition to the Seattle General Strike and steel strike.

** The four-day New Orleans General Strike begins.

The IWW was present to varying extents in many of the struggles in the early decades of the 20th century, including the UK General Strike of 1926, and the dockers ' strike of 1947.

Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest, a collection of resources on IWW activity in the region, including their role in the 1919 Seattle General Strike and farm worker organizing in the early 1900s.

< p > With full responsibility for my words, I am now compelled to say that the cruel massacre of the Chinese proletariat and the Chinese Revolution at its three most important turning points, the strengthening of the position of the trade union agents of British imperialism after the General Strike of 1926, and, finally, the general weakening of the position of the Communist International and the Soviet Union, the party owes principally and above all to Stalin.

His new job arrived in time for him to head the local miners against the colliery companies in what would become the General Strike.

* So Disdained ( 1928 ), written soon after the General Strike of 1926, reflected the debate in British Society about socialism and considered whether Italian fascism was an effective antidote.

In 1842, French Consul General at Mosul, Paul-Émile Botta began to search the vast mounds that lay along the opposite bank of the river.

He was re-elected President, and in early 1842 under his orders, expeditions into Texas were led by Ráfael Vásquez with 500 men, then General Adrian Woll with 1, 400 men.

Putnam County was first established on 2 February 1842, when the Twenty-fourth Tennessee General Assembly enacted a measure creating Putnam County from portions of Jackson, Overton, Fentress, and White counties.

* 1842 – 1842 General Strike, Great Britain

A trail used by General Adrián Woll's Mexican Army on its way to attack San Antonio in 1842 crossed the territory of Uvalde County and became the main highway between San Antonio.

It was created by the Kentucky State Legislature in 1842, and is named for Captain Bland Ballard, a soldier, statesman, and member of the Kentucky General Assembly.

* The General Strike of 1842

The Missouri General Assembly had voted to establish an asylum for the insane in Fulton ( February 26, 1847 ), the first mental health facility west of the Mississippi ; the General Assembly agreed ( February 28, 1851 ) to establish a school for the education of the deaf in Fulton ; in 1842 the Presbyterian Church had opened a female seminary later known as Synodical College ; in the fall of 1851 the Presbyterian Church established the all-male Fulton College, now known as Westminster College ; and Fulton was the seat of county government.

The story of the origin of its name is as follows: In 1842, when there was talk of applying for a postoffice, several persons met in the store of John Hoffman, on Mill creek, and the question Warrensville, in honor of General Warren, was proposed, of a name came up.

* James L. Kemper 1842 — Governor of Virginia, Confederate General wounded during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.

James Bruce became Governor of Jamaica in 1842, and in 1847 was appointed Governor General of Canada.

On 23 December the British envoy, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, was murdered at Kabul ; and in February 1842 the weak and incompetent commander-in-chief, General Elphinstone, sent orders that Kandahar was to be evacuated.

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambronne, later Pierre, Viscount Cambronne ( 26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842 ), was a General of the French Empire.

In 1842, at the age of 60, Napier was appointed Major General to the command of the Indian army within the Bombay Presidency.

During the latter stages of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( in 1841 and 1842 ), Aga Khan I and his cavalry officers provided assistance to General Nott in Kandahar Province and also to General England in his advance from Sindh to join Nott.

He was present in Paris when the Versailles train crash occurred in 1842, and produced a statement concerning the facts for General Charles Pasley of the Railway Inspectorate.

In September 1842, a session of the Rhode Island General Assembly met at Newport, Rhode Island, and framed a new state constitution, which was ratified by the old, limited electorate, was proclaimed by Governor King on January 23, 1843, and took effect in May.

Davidson ’ s successor ( Robert Lessell – minister, 1800 – 1853 ) was responsible for the building of the present building on the site, erected to the Glory of God and dedicated as such on 14 August 1842. Only a year later, in 1843, the first General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland took place in Edinburgh.

After he was re-elected, Porter appointed Packer to the post of Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1842.

John Ramsay ( 1775 – 1842 ), fourth son of the eighth Earl, was a Lieutenant-General in the service of the General Staff of India.