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THE GENERAL STRIKE.
(Continued)
But it is to the everlasting credit of the nation that no such measures were ad any time necessary. As à matter of fact the Trade Unions issued definite instruc- tions to their members on strike that they short space of time a skeleton service of were to avoid disturbances, and moreover, trains was running on most of the main if required they were to help the police to maintain order.. Whero-disorder co- lines, and buses appeared on the streets,curred it is trus to say that it was due and London, although partially paraly to the actions of young hooligans and I have sed for a day, began to recover and keep others of the unemployable class." its limbs moving. if slowly. It was previously remarked that the military" curious to rework well-dressed men with forces were kept discreetly in the back ground. Everyone knew that they were cultured voices working as fare-collectors available if they were wanted, and that on the buses, or driving lorries taden was enough. The only occasions on which with food-stuff, and acting as engine tops came prominently before, the public in connection with the strike was drivers or stokers, or railway guards, or when it became necessary to get food out This was a doing a hundred and one other things of the Port of London. necessary to keep the wheels of civilisa matter of very great great importance, tion going, in order to defeat the wicked and was indeed such a picturesque fea attempt which had been deliberately ture of these anxious "days that it calla dirgeted against the existence of the for special notice. nation.
SECURING FOOD SUPPLIES FROM THE DOCKS.
For four days after the trouble started enough food was in store in London to satisfy the needs of the population. Then supplica began to give out li was essential to replenish them. There were a number of food ships in the Thames, and the authorities resolved to get at their cargoes. The Dock area was, how- ver, closely infested, as though it wore a fortress, by the pickets of the Dockers nod the Transport Workers Unions. Thousands of pickets formed a ring round the Docks, and they kept a vigilant watch. on the Port night and day. Having de-
A REMINDER OF WAR TIME. In other respects the early days" of the strike wero n reminder of war time Within twenty-four hours all sorts of restrictions were in force. A householder possessing more than 3 cwt of coal was forbidden to obtain more than 1 cwt, at a time during the strike. Street light ing was reduced to a few hours every night. The price of bacon, butter, cheese. and other foodstuffs was 5xed at the market rate at which the commodities stood on the day negotiations over the coal dispute broke down. In the West End of London some of the theatres closed, but others carried on, All sosia | cided on action, the Government seat 130 engagements, public meetings, and din motor lorries and a battalion of Guards ners were cancelled, and the usual round into the district just as dawn was break- of social life was suddenly arrested Offices
ing, and they were met near the river! in the City closed or kept going with by a a feet of armoured cars to the num- skeleton staffs. Numerous ing firms ber of 16 which had come to the ren- offered the whole of their personnel to dezvous by another route. The sleepy the Government for work of any kind as strike pickets on duty rubbed their eyes and where required. On public build.ngs you saw posters exhibited asking for the troops and the armoured carg volunteers as lorry drivers, as engine passed by, and then rushed of to tell the drivers, stokers, and guards on the rail. tale to their leaders. In the space of Eve or six, hoare the lorries were loaded ways, as tramwaymen, bus conductors, special constables, dispatch riders on up with food, over 1,000 tons of it, and the return journey was begun. By this motor eyeles, and so forth. There were time the whole of the East End of queues of men and women eager to
London was agog with excitement. enrol. The spirit was wonderful. People otoring from London or to distant parts of the country made it known, that they would be happy to carry one or more passengers desiring to travel in the same
The streets were packed with dense direction on urgent business. The pre-masses of people, including strikers in vailing spirit was that of loyalty to King their thousands. An armoured car paint! and Government, expressed in a keened a dull grey. With machine guns Feep- desite to assist any men of goodwilling through toe port-holes, led the way, in time of stress.
Then came about a dozen forrics piled high with food, then another armoured car, the more lorries, and so on all along the line. Three or four soldiers were
THE CALL FOR SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
FOOD LORRIES ESCORTED BY
ARMOURED CARS.
each lorry, Imagine what the procession looked like. The seemingly ever eading string of lorries, each with its comple
at of stalwart Guardsmen, and the
oured cars gliding along at intervals, passed through the streets amid dead silence, the strikers who thought-or whose so-called leaders thought-they could starve the cation into submission: watching the imposing spectacle with glam faces. They knew at that moment benten army; and the that they were
fect of
business-like, matter-of-fact, lorries with armoured escort seemed to ask them, mockingly, Well, what about
The call for special constables met with a remarkable response. Within the first few days of the strike something like 50,000 men enrolled in the London area. Elsewhere in the country they came up in impressive numbers, and became avail- able to relieve the regular police who were wanted for duty in districts where trouble with strikes was expected, Troops were moved quietly from the military centres to strategetical points in various parts of the country, and this was all done in such a way that the strikers could discover no ground for alleging provocation or intimidation in fact, for the most part of the bulk of the population were not aware that any thing unusual was happening in this res pect. The Fleet had been under orders for manœuvres in the Atlantis, on the
POWER OF NATION AS A WHOLE. eve of the strike, but with the declara.
The Council of the Transport Workers tion of war on the community by the Trades Union Congress the order was aion saw this procession passing along the East India Dock Road, and as soon promptly cancelled. The inhabitants of seaport towns or the North-East Coast 45 it had gone by they knew their game and also on the West on the Mersy and was up. That convoy, and the indica- the Clyde-had clear proof that the Gov. tion of strength that accompanied it to ernment were wide awake when they got guarantee that it reached its destination, up in the morning of the day that was symbolical of the power of the followed the declaration of the General nation as a whole to put down any one: Strike and beheld one or more destroy-section which aspired to dictate terms ers at anchor in the harbour or swinging to the tide outside.
If you think you are able to prevent the people of this country from getting food, why don't you stop this consign. ment ↑ "'
and rule the majority. The food taken out of the Docks was conveyed to Hydé Park which was utilised as the store and distributing centre for foodstuffs during the strike. Thereafter there were similar. convoya almost daily, and cach proceeded was an occasional derisive comment, an on its journey without hindrance. There occasional bitter word, but of organised Mort of the on. hostility none at alls lookers professed kind of cynical amusement. As for the troops them- selves who acted as escort, they seemed to assume that cheerful philosophy, coupled with a desire to do the thing well and yet kindly, that has always been the characteristic of British soldiers.
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CONVOY SYSTEM. IN HOSTILE DISTRICTS.
A USEFUL WARNING. Mr. Saklatvala, the Farsee who sits in the House of Commons for Battersea North (how is it that an English con- stituency has been persuaded to elect an Indian agitator to represent it in Parliament) was sent to prison for preaching sedition in Hyde Park, a useful warning to others to keep their mouths shut; and scaremongers were ar- rested and clapped into prison, or heavily fined, for spreading false reports calculated to create panic or cause dis- affection. This had a salutary effect; but far worse mischief was done by the spread. of false reports. The Government found it advisable to issue repeated warnings to the public not to heed sensational stories
Throughout the country generally food of riot and bloodshed which were was distributed, by means of motor circulation. A common type of lie waa lärries, and in few districts where to the effect that bodies of troops. had strikers showed a disposition to become mutinied, or that policemen had refused Lostile the convoy system was adopted, to return to duty, or that soldiers had the escorts being in these instances pro- begun to fraternine with the, strikers vided by the police. The work of load- (there was a familiar Russian Sovieting and unloading was done, by volun- | touch about this), or that men in charge teers, No praise can be too great to of light and power stations had left their bestow on the men and women who did work. None of these stories had a manifold duties in every conceivable shadow of fourcation, and they were, of direction in a spirit of patriotism in sid course spread deliberately by revolu of the Government and for the good of tionary wire-puflers in the hope that the State. Through their efforts, for panic would be treated in the country. example, the number of trains rose from li is an old trick which has often proved about 800 the day following the outbreak useful in other lands, but it was quite of the trouble to 5,000 on the ninth day useless in the cess of the British people. of the strike; and they also drove buses,. They kept their fect on the ground, and lorries, and acted as stokers at gas works and electric light and power. stations, and slaved for twelve or more hours daily with the utmost cheerfulness and good humour,
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.MILITARY NOT REQUIRED. It was in this atmosphere that the first
authors of all the mischief accepted the in the mesange which be issued after the week of the General Strike went by,
terms expressly laid down by the Prime termination of the struggle. There was no mistake about the strike
Minister, and called the strike off un- LITTLE BITTERNES S being an ugly fact, and that it had the
conditionally. By so doing they admit- whole of the Kingdom in its grip: Also,
ENGENDERED,.
ted that they were defeated, and that victory rested on the side of the Govern it was perfectly plain that plenty of
Meanwhile there was growing dissatis ment backed up by the people of the material was at band to start a con- faction among the strikers with the United Kingdom as a whole. Looking Jagration if somebody was foolish and set it going. In several places there policy of the Trades Union Congress, the back on what bus happened, and consider were riota although not on a large scale their eyes to the fact that unless they caused by the strike it is remarkable General Council of which would not ahating the tremendous disruption of national and the police were quite competent to deal with the trouble. The question was took steps to end the General Strike it how little has been the bitterness engen- whether the military would have to be would collapse. Peace mores were initiat dered. It is a good augury for the called out to asist the civil authorities, ed, and in a surprisingly short time the fature; and the feeling of the public is In that event anything might happen. (Continued on next Jolúmn). well expressed by His Majesty the King
THE KING'S MESSAGE. "Let us forget whatever elements of bitterness the events of the past few days may have created, only remember. ing how steady and bow orderly the country has remained, though severely tested, and forthwith address ourselves to the task of bringing into being a peace which will be lasting because," forgetting the past, it looks only to the future with the hopefulness of united people.-H.B.