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Battle Of Lewes Road Anniversary





GreersElbow

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Jan 5, 2012
4,870
A Northern Outpost
I'm not going to celebrate either, a fascist organisation or a union on strike.

Funny thing is, that the fascists thought the strikers were revolutionaries, when infact; they weren't.
 




Dandyman

In London village.
Respect for the strikers. As GreersElbow rightly points out the striker breakers of 1926 were the Blackshirts of 1936.
 














This is NSC's History Man's account of the events of 1926.

Tramways and the General Strike

Reproduced from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

d) TRAMWAYS AND THE GENERAL STRIKE: The General Strike of 1926 started on Monday, 3 May, and the support in Brighton was solid, the most complete of any town in the south. The railway engineering works were stopped completely, and by the Tuesday all transport services were at a standstill. Policemen were ordered to sleep at their posts, and a special reserve constabulary was sworn in to deal with possible trouble.

The strike in Brighton reached crisis point over the operation of the tramways. With the council's tramways committee considering the use of volunteer labour to take out the trams, about 2,000 strikers marched to the Town Hall to vent their feelings but were diverted away without a deputation being received. The following day a smaller crowd of about 200 gathered around the Town Hall. A woman driver, seeing the protesters, deliberately accelerated into them and injured several people. Without stopping she drove on, with police removing strikers from the car with truncheons, and she disappeared into the town.

The dispute over the trams culminated in the so-called 'Battle of Lewes Road' on Tuesday, 11 May 1926, when 4,000 strikers gathered outside the tram depot in Lewes Road determined not to allow the trams to be driven out. Unknown to them there was no intention of bringing the trams out as the volunteers were only to be trained that day. Chief Constable Charles Griffin, with 300 men on foot and 50 mounted specials, ordered the crowd to disperse, but on obtaining no response ordered his men to advance on foot and then brought up the specials on horseback. As the crowd was driven back to Hollingdean Road some fighting started and the specials charged the crowd, lashing out with batons. As the strikers hit back so a vicious struggle ensued. Eventually the crowd, in which there were many children, was driven back and dispersed, but two people were left seriously injured and many others were hurt; seventeen strikers were arrested by the police and marched through the town to the police station at the Town Hall. That night there was another disturbance outside the Brighton and District Labour Club at 93 London Road when another five people were arrested. The next day all appeared before the bench and were handed severe fines and sentences of up to six month's hard labour.

The General Strike was called off the following day by the Trades Union Congress, an act which was seen as a great betrayal by many in Brighton. The special and regular police forces were given certificates by the council with the regulars granted three days extra leave, and a 'victory' parade of mounted specials outside the Floral Hall and a celebration dinner were held. A number of strikers were not reinstated by the management of the railway works and the bus companies, but the greatest resentment was caused by the action of the police and is still keenly felt by some old folk in the town today.

http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__8914_path__0p116p169p384p0p116p180p1450p.aspx
 




Dandyman

In London village.




Dandyman

In London village.
People who get pissed off because unions disrupt their daily lives aren't necessarily "fascists". They just don't want to put up with the unions shit.

Do you actually have a clue what the General Strike was about and how fascism emerged after WW1 directly as an attack on the growing working class movement ?
 


The 'Battle of Brighton' took place on Saturday 5th June 1948, when supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley's post-war Union Movement clashed with the anti-fascist 43 Group and Communists at the Level.

Does anyone remember the CBR dispute in the late 1960s, which also spilled over into the streets around Lewes Road?
 


Tyrone Biggums

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Jun 25, 2006
13,498
Geelong, Australia
Do you actually have a clue what the General Strike was about and how fascism emerged after WW1 directly as an attack on the growing working class movement ?

I have a lot of clues thanks for asking.

The same shit unions were doing then still goes on now. Unionism was never a noble cause. Never was, never will be.

Anyone who opposes unionism openly is always labelled a fascist by the left wing union flogs.

Even if their issue is simply the union is disrupting their daily goings about.
 






GreersElbow

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Jan 5, 2012
4,870
A Northern Outpost
"Fascists" in 1926? There's some muddled thinking going on.

I'm not denying the existence of fascism in 1926. It's simply the case, though, that the opposition to the General Strike in Brighton wasn't led by fascists. It was led by the Council and the Police.

The middle class union, which was the strike breakers of the Battle of Lewes road later helped form the British Union of Fascists. Middle Class Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So, yes. The strike breakers were fascist.

People who get pissed off because unions disrupt their daily lives aren't necessarily "fascists". They just don't want to put up with the unions shit.

See above.

And so it should! lol

I'd rather see the police crack the skulls of fascists, and undermine any attempt at fascism trying to rise.
 


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May 9, 2008
13,331
Haywards Heath
Great read. That's the way to deal with pickets and protesters. Good work by the old bill.

I don't think anyone would describe me as left wing, but you come across as pretty clueless in your
posts,your great grandparents were probably part of the pickets and protesters you are so dismissive of.
 






User removed 4

New member
May 9, 2008
13,331
Haywards Heath
I have a lot of clues thanks for asking.

The same shit unions were doing then still goes on now. Unionism was never a noble cause. Never was, never will be.

Anyone who opposes unionism openly is always labelled a fascist by the left wing union flogs.

Even if their issue is simply the union is disrupting their daily goings about.
You can join pork pie on the clueless list, without trade unions kids would still be going up chimneys,literally.
 





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