In A Message To The Nation The Government Explained That
they had stopped negotiations not merely because the general strike was threatened, but because it had already taken the form of " overt acts " against the freedom of the Press.......
Reading The Speeches Of Some Of The Labour Members One
might have supposed that the trouble had not been caused by Direct Action at all, but by the sheer perversity of the Government ! One representative of the Party which had......
" I Am Not Speaking," He Went On, " For
the T.U.C. at all. I am speaking for nobody. I have not consulted with my colleagues. 1 am speaking from, my own heart because 1 believe 1 know what all this will mean as the......
Later In The Debate, Mr. Baldwin Explained That Mr. Thomas
had given the House to understand that there was in existence a document written by the Prime Minister, to which the Industrial Council of the T.U.C. had agreed. " That," said......
In The Debate, On Wednesday, May 5th, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald
proved by his speech the agony of mind into which the general strike had plunged him. He had spoken and written against the policy of a general strike for years, yet he found......
We Have Taken Out Of Their Order The More Important
incidents in the debate of Wednesday, May 5th, and we may add here that the object of the debate was to sanction the regulations under the Emergency Powers Act of 1926 for a......
We Hoped For Enlightenment, But A Certain Obscurity...
we shall explain. The British Gazette, on Friday, May 7th, published an article " by a Cabinet Minister " in which it was stated that in the House of Commons debate on......
We Regret That Last Week In Describing The Strike At
the Daily Mail we said that it was a strike of compositors. We owe the compositors an apology. The strikers were actually the union known as the Natsopas—the National Society of......
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