In the summer of 1925, all eyes were on the coal industry, where employers had been forced to back off from their threat to cut miners’ wages. But in the parlous economic circumstances of that year, the miners were not alone in fighting to preserve their living standards from attack.

That July and August, more than 150,000 workers in West Yorkshire’s textiles industry came out on strike when at the urging of the Wool Employers Federation, the county’s mill owners announced plans to reduce wages for the second time that year.

Like the miners, the textile workers, backed by the Trades Union Congress, succeeded that year in getting the government to intervene and pressure their employers to withdraw their plans.

One hundred years on, Calderdale Trades Union Council is marking the event with a meeting at which historians Keith Laybourn and Alan Fowler will speak. The event takes place at Calderdale Industrial Museum, Halifax, on Friday 18 July, starting at 6pm.

Further details from Calderdale TUC.