... which historians use to demonstrate the influences of syndicalism, is the sheer scale and seriousness of strikes taking place and certainly there was a noticeable increase in the number of working days lost and the number of strikes after 1910. In 1912, forty-one million working days were lost, when in the preceding five years the average had been just seven million. The maximum number of actual strikes was in 1913, when 1,459 took place, compared to an average of 600 in the preceding six years. The most serious strike in terms of men laid off took place in 1912, when two million men lost their jobs in a coal strike. Finally, historians argue that it was the spread of syndicalist ideas from France and U.S.A. that caused workers to re-evaluate their positions in society and increase their militancy in their quest for a revolution. `The facts do however appear to be ...

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