Recruitment Collection (#2)

General Strike Food Convoy, May 1926
9th May 1926: An armoured car escorts spirit wagons through Aldgate, watched by interested bystanders during the General Strike

Dock Strike
1949: Cars on the Royal Albert Docks waiting to be shipped to South Africa but held up by the London Dock Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Strike Traffic
1926: Londons traffic confusion on the first day of the General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Mass Meeting
18th August 1911: Liverpool tramway employees attending a mass meeting at Dindal, Liverpool, during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Irish Rail Strike
25th September 1911: British troops marching into Dublin during the Irish Railway Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Empty Station
25th September 1911: The deserted station at North Wall, Dublin, during the Irish Railway Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Recruitment
August 1915: Navvies recruited for the front. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Meat Vans
28th May 1912: Crowds demonstrating as meat vans leave Connaught Docks for Smithfield meat market, London, during the 1912 transport workers strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Children
Children playing in a Belfast street after the National Union of Dockers strike, organised by James Larkin. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

German Captive
November 1915: The wings of a German bi-plane are displayed in the Horseguards Parade, London, during a military recruitment event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

German Mine
November 1915: The interior of a German mine is displayed in the Horseguards Parade, London, during a military recruitment event. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Going to Horse Guards
October 1915: Army recruits going to Horse Guards Parade. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Food Convoy General Strike Armoured Cars, 1926
May 1926: Armoured cars escorting food wagons through Oxford Circus to Hyde Park, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Wartime Workers
29th June 1918: Women war workers march to Buckingham Palace in London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rail Strike
October 1918: Paddington station, London, during a railway strike, with hopeful travellers crowding onto one end of the platform. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Sunday Food Convoy
9th May 1926: During the General Strike, an armoured car passes through Aldgate escorting a Sunday convoy of spirit wagons from the London docks to a depot in Hyde Park

Deserted Railroad
30th September 1919: Main line signals at Waterloo Railway Station in London during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Skeleton Service
27th September 1919: The 12.30 leaving Waterloo Station in London for Portsmouth during the railway strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lorries On Call
3rd October 1919: A convoy of Dennis lorries ready to be used during the railway strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Leyland Convoy
3rd October 1919: A convoy of Leyland mobile car repair shops during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

All-Out
1919: Police strike meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Union
5th May 1919: A Police Union demonstration in Trafalgar Square. (Photo by Roper/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Paddington Station
October 1918: Deserted Paddington railway station in London during the rail strike. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Transport Strikers
28th July 1912: A procession of transport strikers cross Tower Bridge in London, on their way to a rally in Southwark Park. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Belfast Strikes
1st July 1907: A Belfast quayside as the Irish army is sent in, in an attempt to end the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Funeral Crowd
August 1907: The procession at the funeral of Belfast rioters shot by soldiers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Strikers Protest
1st July 1907: Trollies loaded with paper, upset by the striking Belfast dockers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Army At Tonypandy
1910: Military tents at the colliery during the Tonypandy strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Oil Field
1st December 1918: Men working amidst the thick smoke of the Baku oil fields. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Canadian Recruits
1st September 1915: A crowd of eager Canadians outside Toronto Town Hall, during a military recruitment campaign. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Signing On
29th August 1914: Recruits swearing in to join the Royal Fusiliers at the Tower of London, at the start of WW1. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Workers Protest
1st February 1914: Trafalgar Square is packed with demonstrating workers from the Royal Ordnance Factories listening to speakers. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Hop Pickers Demo
16th May 1908: Trafalgar Square is packed by a demonstration of hop-pickers demanding protection against importation of hops. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Recruitment Drive
July 1915: Irish war hero Sergeant O Leary, VC, entering Hyde Park, London, on the Great Recruitment Drive. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dock Strike
1st July 1907: A group of 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment soldiers at Belfast dock during the dock strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Police Push
circa 1920: Police pushing back the crowd at an unemployment demonstration in Whitehall, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Unemployed Demo
circa 1922: A section of the crowd on the May Day labour demonstration in London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Flat Cap Crowd
31st May 1912: Striking London transport workers listen to an address from the English Trade Union Leader Ben Tillett on Tower Hill. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Strike Tanks
10th May 1926: Armoured cars and troops at Hyde Park Corner, London, preparing to escort Londons great food convoy at 6am on the seventh day of the General Strike. (Photo by E)

Food Escorts
8th May 1926: An armoured vehicle escorting food wagons passing through Oxford Circus, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Davies/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Horse De Comabat
July 1907: A traction engine rendered Horse de combat by strikers during the Belfast strike by dockers and the Royal Irish Constabulary. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Dock Strikers
5th August 1911: A crowd of dock strikers in Trafalgar Square, London. Nelsons Column is in the centre. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

After The Strike
15th May 1926: Resumption of work by dockers at London Bridge, after the settlement of the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Back To Work
15th May 1926: Dockers unloading ships at London Bridge three days after the end of the General Strike. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Petrol Wagon
7th May 1926: Mounted police escort a petrol wagon along St Georges Road, Southwark, London, during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Tram In Street
14th May 1926: A London County Council tram travelling in a street in London during the General Strike. (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Food Convoy
9th May 1926: A crowd watches as a food convoy guarded by armoured cars drives down India Dock Road in east London, during the 1926 General Strike. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Johannesburg Riot
1925: The tank which played a prominent role in the Johannesburg rebellion, where union unrest erupted in the Rand Revolt, in which white workers

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