The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-09
BLACKLIST DAY IN
 ENGI.AND'S HISTORY


 of submitting some plan of media ton.
 Meanwhile Lord Beatty. General Sir Henry Wilson and Sir Maurice Han Cabinet. were hastening to Downing street in response to the Premier's summons
 Recruiting of volunteer workers and safety units was energetically begun by the government today and other plans were perfected to meet the threat Of a widespread industrial tieup next Tuesday.
 Meanwhile, however, reports from various parts of England, Scotland alliance executive board may have more to do than the mere issuance of it's strike decree in order to bring about a general cessation of work by the raifwaymen and the transport workers. who with the miners make up the membership Of this big labor organization.
 From the Glasgow. Liverpool. Car diff. Edinburgh and several other inn portant locals of the national union Of railway men, comes word that the rank and file are challenging the right of the railwaymen's national executive body to call a strike with out balloting by the men. Some of these local bodies of railway workers declare the miners resistance to the cuts in their wages. which brought about the strike in the coal industry is iustifaio1e but they do not con- slider that they have anything to thank the miners for and therefore should not be sta npeded into a sym pathetic walkout.
 The general purport of these mes- sages from important centers was that the railwaymen and transport workers do not present a solid front on the striek issue. This, it was said, may account for the silence which the labor leaders maintained after the conference winch they had this morning with Premier Lloyd George.
 The royal family has moved from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Pal ace. Windsor lies some 21 miles from London proper on the right bank Of the Thames Bucl>ingham m Palace is in the heart of the capital It is a fortress as well as a palace.
 Premier Lloyd-George is preparing a manifesto to the people of the Unit ed Kingdom which in &ts gravity and appeal is expected to be no Jess mo- mentous in British history than was Haig's message to the troops
 The premier is holding up the lS- suance of the appeal in hope, 1t Is said, that the executive com mdttee or the triple alliance will return to No- 10 Downing street some time pefore the day is over for more conciliatory conference.
 How little chance there is for con ci1iation, however, was indicated by this statement of miners delesate to the International News Service:
 .'It is vanity the part of Lloyd George to think we will surrender our main weapon. to safeguard the mines against food
 Automatic direction of the King douf's richest coal fields goes on un- abated accompanied by ever 1ncreas- ing violence
 A full cabinet meeting was sum nopad by the premier shortly after noon.
 Meanwhile London and the rest of the kingdom is assuming more war like aspect. Already the nation IS more thoroughly 'in armour"-on land, at sea, and in the alr-than It was for many weeks after the out break of the war. All the improve ments that the great conflict brought into being are pressed into service.
 The Kings call for reserves for active service is rece1VlnS a heartS response Scotland Yard, headquar- ters for recruiting, was thronged at an early hour by men of all classes and ages, ready to enlist for ninety days at a common soldiers pay.
 Similar prompt response is report ed from the provinces. At the same time thousands are volunteering to enroll in the "citizens emergency force'' called for by the monarch in the proclamation which Lloyd George read amidst cheers Tn the House oI Commons yesterday.
 From Rosyth, home" of the bulk of Britain'S fleet, comes word of sig nificant activity. All warships there, from the giant dreadnaughtS down to the mosquito craft, are puffing noisily out of their somestacks, signifying their readiness to dash off on any as Signment.
 As the day wore on more and more reservists lined the square in front of the war office and the embankment, in answer to the Kings call for army and naval reserves.
 All London presented the picture of popuIace eagerly resolved to avert a national calamity, but the actual pressing into service of the re- serves and emergency forces was looked forward to with grave for bodings because of the spirit of bitter defiance on the part of the triple alli- ance whose nearly three million mem berS showed every determination to answer force with force.
 The first arrest under the new powers of the government which vir- tually amount to martial law author ity was that of Peter Chambers, a miners agent at Dalkeith, who was charged with instignating mob to stop pumping at once of the mines.
 A number of Triple Alliance lead CTS including J. H. Thomas, the Rail mems executive; Harry Gosling. pres jdent of the Transport Workers, and some laborite members of Parliament,