The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-03
New Days in Old England
y## The Big Battle Opens.

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trade unionists were watching the
clumsy efforts of a few dozen scabs
trying to unload print paper off
truck. Little by little the hum of con-
versation increased. Most of the on
lockers were printers. Police were
stationed at short distances from each
other around the square. spoke to a
little man at my side and made an un-
complimentary remark on the skill of
the blacklegs. A policeman cooked his
ear and walked over to an inspector
who stood in the middle of the square.
The latter Immediately called his force
together and gave them orders to dis
perse the crowd.
On the following evening I accom-
panied Charles Ashleigh to a printers
meeting somewhere around Fleet
street, and the first person l laid eyes
on was the worker l accosted on the
previous evening. He was member
OF Natsopa, the organization that
stopped the Daily Mail.
Opposite the Bank of England,
~ right in the heart of the city a boy
was selling the British Worker. No
body particularly cared what kind of a
paper it was, but they grabbed it. It
was not the most fertile ground to
drop the labor seed on, but the news
boy did not care as long as he was
getting the coppers.
A typical burlesque stage English
man emerged from one of the count
ing houses and dashed for the news
boy Paper" he asked. He was
handed British Worker Gazing at
it rather abstractedly, he passed the
penny to the newsboy with a slow mo-
ton movement When he recovered
his senses he muttered audibly. by
George! A labor paper" Yes, the sa-
cred precincts of the city was being
invaded by the proletariat.
On the Strand opposite Charing
Cross Station a plump lady was SAM
ping the wares of a mushroom news
boy CHS boyhood days were only a
memory, He had quite collection
of sheets issued by enterprising mer-
chants. A very effective method of
advertising. All the news, if such it
may be termed, was from the British
Broadcasting Company, government
monopoly, and the most lying institu-
ton that ever used the air.
l asked the old news vendor for a
copy of the British Gazette. He went
to hunt for a copy Stirring days."
| remarked to the lady. 1.-THE country
is pretty we'll tied up" She burst
into fury. "These labor leaders should
be shot," she said. THE government
shoul call out the Grenadier Guards
and give the cattle lesson"
Don't you think the government
broke off negotiations rather precipi-
tately?" / observed. The lady grew
purple. Negotiate with that rabble!"
she snorted. Then some more sugges-
tons as to the use of gunpowder.
They must be taught to know their
place." was her parting shot.
A newsboy in front of the postofice
at Trafalgar Square did not have a
copy of the British Gazette, but he
promised to have copy for me about
IL noon. When l returned he handed
me a British Worker. I asked for a
Chicago Tribune, Paris edition. This
was the third day of the strike. Moth
ing doing. Scotland Yard would not
allow him to carry the Trib. Why?
On the previous day he was shout
ing his wares, and a Tory M. p. who
was passing by thought the contents
of the paper as heralded by the young
lad was favorable to the workers.
Lloyd George said something in behalf
of the miners and blamed the govern
ment for breaking off negotiations.
Free speech" did not work In Eng
land any more. The M. P. called a
bobby and asked him to arrest the
newsboy on the ground that he was
melting the public. The constable
looked at the paper and said that the
stories justified the lad, so he could