Sorry Alan, I misread your earlier post as saying you weren't familiar with the history of the General Strike, rather than that you didn't know about troops being deployed.

In any case, the use of English troops to quell Scottish strikers is interesting. A typical case of divide and rule.

SFAIK, troops weren't deployed on Merseyside (which is where I'm from) during the GS, but they were on two similar occasions.

First of all in 1911, during the Liverpool Transport strike, troops and police injured over 350 people, plus there were a further two shot dead.

Again, in 1932, when the MacDonald coalition cut the dole, it led to riots in Birkenhead, which again led to the army being called out.

Here's a squib which Ewan MacColl wrote at the time.

Forward unemployed, forward unemployed,
Led by the NUWM,
We fight against the cuts again.
From fighting Birkenhead, we've learnt our lesson well.
We'lI send the National Government
And the means test all to Hell.