General Strike

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Across
  1. 2. clashes between police and strikers happened here (6)
  2. 6. The charges brought against the strikers (8)
  3. 8. Set up in Sept 1925 to recruit and train volunteer labour to act as strike-breakers(3)
  4. 10. The courts ruled the General Strike was... (7)
  5. 11. The month the General Strike happened (3)
  6. 12. One of the main areas of local action (9)
  7. 13. passed by the government in 1927 making general strikes illegal(6,8,3)
  8. 16. when the miners were forced back to work by poverty and hunger (8)
Down
  1. 1. One of the main areas of local action (7)
  2. 3. Length of the strike (4,4)
  3. 4. Industry is now governed by the Government who control the mines and pay miners directly (15)
  4. 5. The government creates a newspaper attacking the General Strike (7,7)
  5. 7. strikers newspaper (7,6)
  6. 9. 'Not a ..... off the pay, not a minute off the day' (5)
  7. 14. Money given by the government in order to help out certain industries(9)
  8. 15. This union calls for the General Strike (1,1,1)