New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-17
British Labor
May Split ON
Strike Issue
Continued from first pass)

on strike. This work of organization
continues with undiminished vieor for
the present crisis or any similar situa-
ton which may face the country. and
the indications are that the organiza-
tons will be made permanent, as a
protection for the main arteries of the
country's transport in cases of stop
page.
With the trains running, the nearly
fifty thousand motor vehicles. which
it was said last night were ready to
assume the burden of Transporting
food in the greatest experiment of
road haulage ever attempted, were idle
to-day or had been returned to their
normal industries, but they have been
catalogued so as to be ready for any
had the benefit of preparing for
crisis without having to put their plans
to the test on short notice. The can
collation. CT the strike order to the
transport and railway men was so sud-
den and unexpected, however, that it
was impossible to call off all the
motor transport arrangements This
morning Hyde Park and Regents Park
remained closed and quantities Of
foods tufts already deposited were
being distributed from them as if the
Defense Enlistments Continue
Enlistments in the defense corps,
which aims to protect the voluntary
workers, are being continued, and it is
said there is no idea yet of shortening
the ninety-day term, in view OF posi-
bic eventualities in the mining districts,
where the volunteers may be called into
service. Officials assert the character
n
neither a strike nor anti-strike nature,
but they are for protection OF the life
and security of all the people without
discrimination.
AT the close Of a hour con-
ference Of the Triple Alliance execu-
tives at Unity House this morning
Robert Williams, secretary of the
Transport Workers Federation. issued
statement in which he declared the
railway men and the transport workers
had been compelled to cancel their
proposed strike in sympathy with the
miners because mo reasonable hope
remained of securing the spontaneous
and united action OF the three bodies,
which was SO essential to give the
Miners Federation the assistance they
sought"
A partial sympathetic strike would
have been Intellectual, the statement
points out. Up TO Thursday evening,
1t continues, there was every hope of
tremendous display of working-class
solidarity but circumstances de-
stroyed the firm ground on which the
strike call was based.
The Triple Alliance conference.
added Mr.. Williams, profoundedly re-
GREETED the changed situation.
Miners Bitter at Alliance
Reports from various parts of the
country state that CONSERVATION, not
unmlXed with anger, prevails among
the miners at the action of the other
mem bers of the Triple Alliance. The
view widely expressed in London is
that the split in the Triple Alliance
VIII accelerate settlement of the
miners strike. In any event, the in
Vltatlon to the miners to attend a Joint
conference of the coal owners and gov
eminent representatives. on the ques-
tlon OF wages remains open.
The situation was summarized bv q
rood Ministry notice posted for the
transport corps IN Regents Park, read
ing: Garry on! Pay no attention to
press statements regarding the posi-
ton. Act only on orders from head
quarters"
The best hope for an early solution
OF the crisis Is held to lie in the new
attitude for an independent investiea-
ton shown by large section of the
House OF Commons. 1t is even sup
posed In some quarters that it was
the sympathy which these members
displayed on Thursday while listening
to Frank Hodges, the Miners Fedora