I’ve been looking at the hardships in Blantyre during Summer 1894 when the Miners strike caused so many families to be starving and destitute. by August, things were so bad that the authorities sought to reduce the relief being given to the poor by sixpence, in order to help fund a further £40 towards the […]
A report from the Dundee Evening Telegraph, Friday 11th September 1936. Pictured is (non Blantyre) but similar “stay in strike” from the same era. “About 5000 miners in the Blantyre district of Lanarkshire are idle to-day. They are taking part in a one-day strike in sympathy with the stay-in strikers. This follows a midnight meeting of […]
Miners were idle at High Blantyre’s pits on Saturday 3rd October 1936 by way of a strike. The report is as follows, “Dissatisfaction again broke out on Saturday among a number of the men employed at Blantyre Collieries, which are owned by Messrs Win. Dixon, Ltd., where the stay-in strike took place. No. 1 and […]