Title

'A. J. Cook led the Miners and the miners led the strike', c1926, (1938). Artist: Unknown.

Caption

'A. J. Cook led the Miners and the miners led the strike', c1926, (1938). Arthur James Cook (1883-1931), known as A. J. Cook, was a British trade union leader who was General Secretary of the Miners? Federation of Great Britain from 1924 until 1931, a period that included the 1926 General Strike. The 1926 general strike lasted 9 days, from 4 May 1926 to 13 May 1926. It was called by the Trades Union Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to act to prevent wage reduction and declining working conditions. From These Tremendous Years 1919-1938. [Daily Express, London, 1938]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1926

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C75_162

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (3,2Mb) / 14,1in x 14,9in / 4216 x 4480 (300dpi)

Keywords

outdoors people male man men industry worker day trade guy clothes British dress mining miner strike century passion Britain newspaper expression sepia leader thirties United Nations waistcoat twenties B&W two people pleading MONOCHROME publication black & white black and white B W 1930s 1920s wages coal miner 20th century workers The Print Collector Daily Express orator trade union trade unionist general strike photograph portrait postwar General Secretary Unknown Cook Arthur James trade unionism 1926 workers rights Tremendous Years Arthur James Cook AJ Cook photograph portrait