The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-04-09
ENLIST SAFETY
UNITS To COMBAT
TUESDAY STRIKE
Gritish Government Prepares for
Industrial Tieup
WORKERS NOT ALL UNITED
Railwaymen Object to Calling of
Strike Withot Ballot by
the Men

London, April 9.-Recruiting of
volunteer workers and safety units
was energetlcally begun today by the
government and other plans were per.
fected to meet the threat Of wide
spread industrial tieup Tuesday grow
ing out OF the miners str ke and in.
volyng approximately two million
workers.
Meanwhile, however, reports from
various parts of England, Scotland
and Wales indicate that the triple al
lance executive board may have
more to do than the mere issuance
Of strike decree in order to bring
about a general cessat on of work by
railwaymen and transport workers
who with the miners make up the
membership of this big labor organi-
Zation
From Glasgow, Liverpool, Cardiff,
Edinburgh and several other import
ant locals OF the national union of
railway men comes word that the
rank and file are challenging the
right of the alway mems national
executive body to call strike with
out balloting by the men.
London, April S-TWo million work
men affiliated with the triple alliance
of British labor Will go on strike
Tuesday midnight unless com
promise between the coal mine own
ers and the miners is reached in the
meantime.
Two million other worlmen will be
made idle at the same time The reg
listers of the unemployment exchang-
es already exceed 100000 persons.
and dislocation of the industries may
easily account for another 100000 In
addition there are 10000 persons
work ng on short time Thus more
than 100000 persons will be out of
wort:
The Miners Federation seems de-
termined to allow the mines to go
to destruction in the belief that by
such action it will be able to inti
midate the nation into surrender,
Premier Lloyd George declared in the
House of Commons, adding that it
was the duty OF the Government, as
the trustee of the nation, to prevent
this catastrophe He then announced
that the Government would issue an
appeal or 70 unteers to take the place
Of strikers in the transport and other
essential services and that a royal
proclamation would call up the army
and navy reserves.
The Government II enroll special
constables and form special emer-
gency force for a period of ninety
days to protect the police in the exc
cution of their duty. All former serv
ice men have been asked to volun-
tee'
Troops are being sent to districts
where trouble might be anticipated,
and the forces in London are being
augmented.
AS in the great railway strike of
1919, when the force of public op Mon
and citizen volunteers broke the
movement, it is expected that men
and women of all classes will respond
to the Governments appeal. Then
dukes sons, cooks sons and sons of
belted earls' acted as watchmen
lorry drivers, ticket collectors, freight
handlers and bus conductors,
IL the triple alliance order for
general stoppage Of work by its mem
bers is made effective, II seems GER
tain there will be a rush Of volunteers
from the element not in sympathy
with the strike movement, An or
ganization which probably will have
an important part in this emergency
is the middle classes union, com
posed mainly of the new poor and
the so-called "salariat," who contend
that through lack of : organ cation
they have failed to achieve increases
commensurate with those received
by the trade un'onists, and that they
had been penalzed through the high
living costs resulting from the ad-
vances to the trade unionists.
When strike clouds began to gath
er this organ cation started registrar
tion of all those prepared to serve IN
any capacity during the national
emergency, and it's officials tonight
said that many thousands of men and
women had enrolled at the unions
three hundred branches in all parts
of England, Scotland and Wales.
Similarly, committees have been form
ed for the enrolment of volunteers
among professional men, so ii the
strike comes kings councils may be
seen driving motor busses, doctors
collecting tramway tickets and peers
stoking locomotives, as was the case
during the railway strike in Septem-
be-, 1919
HARDING PREPARING MESSAGE