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Labor Collection (page 5)

Background imageLabor Collection: Deserted Railroad

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Skeleton Service

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Lorries On Call

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Leyland Convoy

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: All-Out

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Police Union

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Paddington Station

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Railway Construction

Railway Construction
1906: Labourers at work on a cutting, during construction of the Manchurian-Siberia railway. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Transport Strikers

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Belfast Strikes

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Funeral Crowd

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Strikers Protest

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Army At Tonypandy

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Oil Field

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Workers Protest

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Hop Pickers Demo

Hop Pickers Demo
16th May 1908: Hop-pickers demonstration and march along the Embankment in London. They demand an import levy on foreign hops. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Hop Pickers Demo

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Clean Up

Clean Up
2nd October 1912: Labourers at work clearing up debris after a water main burst in Old Broad Street. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Dock Strike

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Police Push

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Unemployed Demo

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

Background imageLabor Collection: Flat Cap Crowd

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Strike Tanks

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Food Escorts

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Horse De Comabat

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Dock Strikers

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: After The Strike

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Back To Work

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Petrol Wagon

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Tram In Street

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Food Convoy

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)

Background imageLabor Collection: Johannesburg Riot

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

Background imageLabor Collection: War Work

War Work
June 1916: Crowds of men gathered outside Great Scotland Yard and the Office of Works in London, awaiting their turn in the army recruiting office. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Great Sunday Food Convoy

Great Sunday Food Convoy
A crowd watches as a food convoy guarded by armoured cars drives down India Dock Road in east London en route to the Hyde Park depot, on the 6th day of the 1926 General Strike, 9th May 1926

Background imageLabor Collection: Royal Albert Docks

Royal Albert Docks
12th February 1980: A scene from the Royal Albert Docks during the Industrial dispute. (Photo by Chris Ball/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Rubbish Pile

Rubbish Pile
8th February 1979: Piles of rubbish near Charing Cross Hospital in Hammersmith, London, during the dustmens strike. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Rubbish Pile Up

Rubbish Pile Up
2nd December 1970: Rubbish piled up in a Leicester Square during the dustmens strike. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Police Line

Police Line
circa 1980: Police forming a line in front of demonstrators at Llanwern Steel. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: South African Mining Conditions

South African Mining Conditions
Miners stand by two mine cars on their track at one of the De Beers mines, Kimberley, South Africa, early 20th Century. (Photo by FPG/Getty IMages)

Background imageLabor Collection: Ship Building Strike

Ship Building Strike
1st April 1957: A vessel under construction at the Burrow-in-Furness shipyard where work has stopped during a strike. Original Publication

Background imageLabor Collection: Obsolete Machinery

Obsolete Machinery
28th March 1953: Machinery in a tinplateworks in South Wales factory which is due to close. This is because of the building of giant strip-mills which need fewer workers to run them

Background imageLabor Collection: Banana Laden Beast

Banana Laden Beast
Two workers load a donkey or mule with bananas during the harvest on a banana plantation in Costa Rica, early 1900s. (Image by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Paris Traffic

Paris Traffic
A traffic jam in Paris during a strike by public transport workers, circa 1935. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: Cotton Factory

Cotton Factory
Textile workers in a British cotton factory, where processes include carding, drawing and roving. Engraving by J Cart after an original work by T Allom, circa 1840

Background imageLabor Collection: Coal Queuing During a Strike

Coal Queuing During a Strike
Full-length image of people queuing up to buy coal during a coal strike, possibly New York City. (Photo by Edwin Levick/Getty Images)

Background imageLabor Collection: League of Self-Supporting Women Rally, 21st May 1910

League of Self-Supporting Women Rally, 21st May 1910
21st May 1910: Men and women attend a rally of the League of Self-Supporting Women, part of the Womens Suffrage Movement in Union Square, New York

Background imageLabor Collection: Mutinous Crew

Mutinous Crew
circa 1912: Crowds gather to watch the mutinous crew of the SS Olympus going into court. The Olympus was the sister ship to the Titanic, and the crew refused to sail following the disaster



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