Cika wannan jumla:
Janar ya fara ne a matsayin rikici tsakanin masu hakar ma'adinai da masu ba su aiki a wajen London a 1925. A ranar 1 ga Mayu, 1926 Kungiyar Kungiyar Kwadago ta kira ga ma'aikata a duk faɗin ƙasar, gami da ma'aikatan tashar jiragen ruwa na London. Gwamnati ta yi sama da shekara guda don shirya da tura sojoji don karya layin masu aikin tashar jiragen ruwa. Sojojin da ke dauke da makamai, tare da motoci masu sulke, sun bi hanyar East India Dock Road. A ranar 10 ga Mayu, an gudanar da taro a Toynbee Hall don kawo karshen yajin aikin. An tilasta TUC ta shiga cikin tashin hankali mai banƙyama kuma yajin aikin gama gari ya ƙare a ranar 11 ga Mayu, tare da ma'aikatan ma'adinai har zuwa Nuwamba.