Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-05-06
Great Britain Strike May
Be Ended Monday
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are consolidating their positions like
great opposing armies. The govern
ment is bending every effort TO re,
establish railway, interurban and mu-
nicipal transport in order to main
| tain essential service of supply while
the trades union congress is devoting
its energies to maintaining solidarity
in organized labor ranks.
In setting forth the situation to the
press, the governments spokesman at
/ the admiralty declared that the ma
tion was meeting the crisis quietly and
calmly with food and fuel supplies
guaranteed for many weeks; an Off
cial of the trades union at Eccleston
Square,, labor headquarters, announc-
led that the railway tieup was the
most complete in the history of Great
Britain and that the striking men and
their women folk were standing sol
! idly together for the cause of labor.
| Based on various conferences held
/ this evening, one of which was be-
I lieved to be among Ramsay MacDon-
4 aid, A. j.. Cook and Herbert Smith, la
Dor leaders, there were predictions in
! some quarters of possible important
/ developments. One was that the gem
/ era1 strike would be ended by Mon
day.
| Nevertheless there is no precise in
formation on the subject although
1 it is known that such men as Ram
say Macdonald are striving with
might and main to bring about a set
! tlement, the former Tabor premier
/ oven imploring the house prior to its
! adjournment to "do something toward
a settlement
AA sensational incident of the day
was a raid by Scotland Yard on the
office of the Daily Herald, the labor
organ, which had undertaken the
printing of the British Worker, a pa
gress to offset the British Gazette,
published by the government
The raid caused considerable ex-
citement, ut the authorities withdrew
the embargo after a sample copy of
the British Worker had been exam
/ ined.
Throughout the afternoon the op-
posing councils of war faced each
other across the narrow floor of the
fhouse of commons. With charactcri3
tic firmness and quietness, Premier
Baldwin met all aprcoaches from the
labor benches for the reopening of the
parleys, regarding the coal miners
dispute with the declaration that no
government in any circumstances
could ever yield to general strike.
The moment it was officially with
! drawn Internationally the govern
ment was prepared to resume nego-
tiations.
Former Premier Lloyd George Joined
the laborites in deploring the precip-
itancy shown in breaking off the ne.
gotiations, which he characterized as
grave error. Ramsay Macdonald
begged the cabinet not to remain ad-
amant, but to make some concession
in order to get the government and
the trades union congress around the
conference table. For the first time
the debate brought out how slight
touch was needed to sever the thread
of negotiations and send the sword
of a general strike crashing on the
heads of the British people. 1t was
the covert act' of a few printers in
the Daily Mail plant who, acting with
out authority of the unions repre-
sentatives, disagreed with an edito-
rial and stopped the machinery of the
paper, preventing it's publication
The debate tended to center more
and more on the precise reasons OF
the breakdown Of TIL negotiations sun
day night, and after strong appeal
by Lord Hugh Cecil for dispassionate
consideration of all the circumstances
j. H. Thomas rose anad said that on
Sunday night the negotiating com
mittee of the trade union congress
had accepted formula drawn by the
prime minister's own hand and had
left to discuss it miners in an ad-
Joining room, when they received the
governments decision to terminate
the parleys.
Premier Baldwin interviewed to ex-
plain that all the time he had enter
tanned doubts about the wisdom Oh
continuing negotiations under the
threat of a general strike. When
news was received that the first steps
toward the general strike had been
taken, namely, interference with the
expression Of opinion in the press, the
government decided that the confer
ence could not continue, he said.
Ramsay Macdonald, in a further
plea for bringing the government and
the trades union committee together,
again said that after receiving the
Governments final communication
Sunday night the trades union con- |
gress and miners sent a committee |
from their room to the prime minis !
ter's room to discuss the situation.
When the committee arrived, Mac |