Mitchell Gallery

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA

Mitchell's Corn Palace, The World's Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10, 000 in natural colored grains and grasses. The annual festival is held the last week in September and the building is open free the year around. It is the most outstanding exhibit of nature's wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by skilled decorators'. The Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937. Date: circa 1937

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

The General Strike - Government leaders

Government leaders during the General Strike: Ministers and Commissioners. 1. Chief Civil Commissioner: Sir W. Mitchell-Thomson, 2. Principal Chief Assistant Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Lowry, 3. Civil Commissioner, London and Home Counties Division: Major W. Cope, 4. Civil Commissioner, Eastern Division: Major Sir Philip Sassoon, 5. Coal-owner's representatives leaving Downing Street: (Left to right) Messrs. W. A. Lee, Evan Williams, Edward Mann, and Guthrie. 6. Civil Commissioner for the North Midland Division: Captain H. Douglas King, 7. The Members of the Coal Commission: (Left to right) Mr. Kenneth Lee, Sir William Beveridge, Sir Herbert Samuel, (Chairman) and Sir Herbert Lawrence. 8. Minister of Labour: Sir Arthur Steel Maitland. 9. Civil Commissioner, Midland Division: Lt. Col. the Hon. G.F. Stanley. 11. Civil Commissioner, North Eastern Division: Captain D. H. Hacking. 12. Parliamentary Secretary to the Department of Mines: Col. G.R. Lane-Fox, 13. Civil Commissioner, South Midland Division: Major Earl Winterton, 14. The Home Secretary: Sir William Joynson-Hicks. In support of a strike by coal miners over the issue of threatened wage cuts, the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in early May 1926. The strike only involved certain key industrial sectors (docks, electricity, gas, railways) but, in the face of well-organised government emergency measures and lack of real public support, it collapsed after nine days

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Labour Group, Sheffield City Council, Town Hall, 1926

Pictured back row (l.to r.)Councillors W.E.Yorke; A.Oates; C.J.Mitchell; W.G.Robinson; F.Thraves; C.W.Gascoigne; J.Hawnt; A.Spencer.second to back row (l.to.r.)Councillors S.H.Marshall; E.Snelgrove; J.Curtis; A.Smith; W.Furniss; G.H.Rowland; J.H.Skelton; E.Gandy; W.Asbury.second row (l.to.r.)Councillors J.Sweeney; A.Robinson; J.A.Longden; Mrs. Cheetham; E.S.Nicholson; J.Whittington; A.Ward; T.Garnett; A.Barton; R.H.Minshall.front row (l.to r.)Copuncillor J.Cobley; Alderman E.Atkin JP; Councillors W.Bancroft; W.F.Wardley JP; M.Humberstone JP (Secretary and Whip); E.G.Rowlinson JP (Chairman); Alderman C.W.Beardsley JP (Vice-Chairman); Councillors T.H.Watkin (Assistant Whip); F.Womersley and F.Marshall

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