Volunteers Bring Workers to Town

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

768-2

Date Released

17 May 1926

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1General Strike off [Title Announcing the Calling off of the General Strike (15 Feet)
2. 2Volunteers Bring Workers to Town

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 2

Summary

[1ST SUBTITLE]: "Volunteers bring workers to Town." Scene at train station. People in a street. [2ND SUBTITLE]: "Waiting for News at the TUC". Crowd gathered outside building. Close shot of them reading a notice pinned up outside the building. Close-up of notice, dated 12th May 1926, which reads: ‘The General Strike is being terminated today. Members on strike are, however, asked to await instructions from their own Head Offices. The TUC is telegraphing to all Head Offices asking them to give the necessary instructions to their members. No exact time for the termination of the general strike can be fixed in view of varying circumstances in the different trades concerned, but Head Offices will instruct on this point. A Pugh (Chairman). Walter M Citring [?] (Acting Secretary)'. [3RD SUBTITLE]: "Smithfield market is still barricaded". Barricades. Close shot of two soldiers in a tank. [4TH SUBTITLE]: "Hyde Park Milk Pool ‘Carries on’". Two shots of lorries with milk churns by Hyde Park. [5TH SUBTITLE]: "The Men to Whom We now Look. Mr JH Thomas". Close-up of JH Thomas. [6TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr Ramsay MacDonald". Close-up of Ramsay Macdonald. View looking down at armoured vehicles and people in street. [7TH SUBTITLE]: "Scenes it is hoped will never be repeated. Volunteers unloading meat at Albert Docks". Scenes of this. [8TH SUBTITLE]: "Plus-Four Porter". Scene of this. [9TH SUBTITLE]: "Vast Armed Convoy". [Section missing?] [10TH SUBTITLE]l: "Kensington ‘Specials’ practise ‘nippiness’". A car full of people. [11TH SUBTITLE]: "Mr Baldwin". Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin outside 10 Downing Street. [12TH SUBTITLE]: "Chiswick ‘Bus Depot still very busy". Scenes of this. [13TH SUBTITLE]: "Volunteer Drivers ‘live in’". Various scenes including men eating and lying on the floor.

Keywords

Politics and government; Vehicles; Police; Labour relations; Military

Length of story (in feet)

193

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Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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