Название: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War - Crewe in the Great War
Автор: Peter Ollerhead
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1783463414
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 160
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 3,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
Along with most of the United Kingdom the railway town of Crewe was affected in many ways during the four years of the Great War. The struggle brokered conflict and co-operation in this industrial community planted in the rural acres of Cheshire by the Grand Junction Railway Company in 1843. A military tradition dating back to the town's earliest decades helps to explain the eager response by the young men of Crewe when war was declared in 1914. A rapid increase in the cost of living along with accusations of blatant profiteering soon generated demands for regular wage rises. This conflict between organised labour and industrial and commercial management was more marked in Crewe than elsewhere in the region.