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Notice in section Background to the Conflict that miners' pay went down from £6 to £3 before the strike. Does this refer to weekly pay? (Pertinent question given difference in scale to later 20th century wages/salaries.Cloptonson (talk) 21:37, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
With 1 May - two days before launch of the strike - having become marked in recent decades as Labour Day, I wonder if that had any evidenced real or seriously suspected influence on the willingness to strike?Cloptonson (talk) 21:46, 29 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think Wikipedia is serving its readers well when a search on the term The General Strike brings up an article on the eighth album by a punk rock band from Pittsburgh, rather than this page. Nor do I think the rather odd and ungrammatical title of this page helps. Can I suggest that this page is renamed The General Strike or, if wanting to avoid confusion with the general strike page, or general strikes in other countries, something like The 1926 UK General Strike. Even its old title of UK General Strike of 1926 would be an improvement. Then the album page could be renamed The General Strike (album). I think this would remove much confusion. KJP1 (talk) 13:36, 14 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I query the context of your quoted comments by George V about the striking workers and their pay and suggest more be looked into and said about the background in which it was said. My understanding is that it was not, as it may appear to the reader, said in the context of a broadcast speech or an appeal to the government (as a constitutional monarch the king had proprieties to observe), for I recall when much younger reading a book about one of the Royal Family that it stated the king said this in reply to a spoken comment by the Earl of Durham (a coal owner) in conversation. Durham had referred to striking miners in speaking before the king as ".....[adjective forgotten]...revolutionaries", which drew the royal comment. I do not have the biography with me and the passage there did not credit a third party that could have recorded the conversation. Was it noted by the king in his own published diaries?Cloptonson (talk) 05:40, 20 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This is a fair point. The King never made any such public statement and would never have done so. The article misrepresents him on that score and falsely claims that he sought to 'stabilise the situation' by saying it, when in fact he is only supposed to have said it in a personal conversation with a pit owner. If the King did want to 'stabilise the situation', he would say something to the Prime Minister at their weekly audience, but those audiences remain private and unrecorded. The King, unlike his son David, did read through his red boxes and would have been aware of the revolutionary intent behind the General Strike (and the TUC and the Labour Party were aware of that and distinctly concerned), so it's improbable that he was in favour of it, however much he may have sympathised with the poorly-paid miners. Khamba Tendal (talk) 18:48, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Once Again Using Long Outdated Source For Biased Statement
This is starting to get old at this point. Every single time I go to google something that interests me from something I watch or read and click on the Wikipedia page in the past year 9 times out of 10 there will be recent edits that are heavily biased, use books that are out of print or hard to obtain but either way are very old and oudated but due to non-fiction text having more weight than internet links for some reason they seem to get by. Take this edit for example that wasn't here at the beginning of the year:
So this is from a book written in 1993, which makes it problematic as a source for that reason but especially when using it to back up quotes that, "most historians agree" on something since historical knowledge and historians view on topics has changed drastically in the past 24 years. Not to mention simple googling shows that statement to not be true, I mean Britain is still affected by a non sympathetic strike law put into place by Thatcher who had reinstated an earlier law that was made right after the strike and that's just one thing.JaqenHghar80 (talk) 05:53, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
