On Friday 15th April 1921, the General workers and the Railway workers refused to support the miners and stopped their workers going out on strike with them. This was a bad day for the miners and was aptly named BLACK FRIDAY. This was described as a disaster for themselves and other trade unionists. The strike still went ahead as planned but was highly unsuccessful, the striking miners were defeated and then forced back to work but for substantially lower wages.
After this other workers in the shipyards, docks, building trade, cotton spinning, printing and on the railways were all forced to ...