Solidarity in an urban industrial and rural agricultural landscape.
In this short pamphlet, Stuart Butler and Tony Conder bring to life a turbulent nine days in Stroud, with its cloth mills and industry, and Gloucester, an important transport hub with major docks at its centre.
As the Stroud Journal reported the General Strike, “At midnight on Monday the wheels of industry … began to slow down. Trains disappeared from our local railway lines The big daily newspapers failed to appear on our breakfast tables, and, within a day or two, many of our … industries were compelled to work short time.”
Although not mining areas, A Tale of Two Towns tells how workers came out willingly and enthusiastically in solidarity with the miners’ cause.
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