At midnight on 3 May 1926, nearly two million workers joined Britain's first – and only – General Strike. Their walkout in support of starving miners and their families was the greatest act of working class solidarity in history . But it wasn't enough. The nationwide stoppage, called by the TUC General Council, virtually paralysed the nation as railwaymen, transport workers and printers heeded the call for sympathetic action. Workers walked off the job from John O'Groats to Land's End, in an