Why did the General Strike of 1926 take place?

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Why did the General Strike of 1926 take place?

There were many factors that came together after the First World War that culminated in causing the start of the General Strike, and perhaps made such an event inevitable. Principally, these were the ongoing dispute between the coal miners and the mine owners and the miners' desire to keep the advantages they had gained during the war. This dispute was made worse by the government's belief in the free market in the face of the British industry slump between 1921 and 1925, and by the union alliance system and the government's belief that the unions were trying to control them using syndicalism (controlling the government using strikes). Whilst these were the main underlying reasons for the strike, its actual timing was influenced by government tactics to delay the 'moment of truth' in 1925 in order to make preparations to limit the impact of the dispute on the country as a whole.

Whilst the dispute between the miners and owners had been ongoing for some years, they were brought to the fore in the years of the First World War. During the war, the government took over