On the 7 September troops confronted a crowd at Ackton Hall Colliery at Featherstone, near Pontefract, in the West Riding of Yorkshire during a prolonged attempt to resist a lock-out designed to enforce a cut in wages. At about 9.15 p.m. the magistrate, Bernard Hartley, ordered the troops to...

Union Choices Affect Wages -- Strikes and wages -- Strikes and wages -- Empty victories, harmless defeats -- Is what you ask for what you get? -- The state versus managers -- Militancy and accommodation -- Schism and steering -- The limits of militancy -- Making strikes pay.