Black Friday (1921)

Black Friday, in British labour history, refers to 15 April 1921, when the leaders of transport and rail unions announced a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners.[1] The epithet 'black' derives from a widespread feeling amongst labour radicals that the decision amounted to a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners.[2][3]

Black Friday caused the 1921 United Kingdom census, which had been planned for 24 April, to be pushed back to June.[4]

  1. ^ "Black Friday and the TUC". The National Archives. Retrieved 21 May 2010.
  2. ^ Fitzgerald, Ross (1997). The People's Champion, Fred Paterson: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament. University of Queensland Press.
  3. ^ History+ for Edexcel A Level: Democracies in change: Britain and the USA in the twentieth century. Hodder Education. 2015. ISBN 978-1471837685.
  4. ^ "The 1921 Census". Retrieved 10 January 2022.