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THIS FIGHT IS NOT YET WON
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November 13, 1887, was Bloody Sunday:" The Life Guards were brought to Trafalgar Square to put a stop to Free Speech. Those are contemporary sketches from The Illustrated London News.'
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rushes.
IFTY years ago yes- their batona indiscriminately on terday Nolson, from the heads of rioters and peaceful. his column in Tratal- onlookers carried forward in the gar Square, gazed down on The corners of the Strand was the fiercest of the battle- thousands of working men,
grounds. Under the sheer fighting Guardsmen and police in the cause of free weight of the crowd the police speech.
were getting to the stage when
Iron bars torn from West End they could no longer hold their rallings clashed on bayonet and ground, and just before dunk cavalry sabrc. Batons were two squadrons of Life Guards pitted against bricks and staves, were fetched from Whitehall, A hundred people were wounded Slowly the column of silver, -two died-and to this day scarlet and flashing steel forced November 13, 1887, is remem- its way through the surging bered as "Bloody Sunday." snabby crowd. A magistrate From the midst of the trou- who had come with the troops blous present it is not easy to read the Riot Act, but still the
crowds could not be scattered.
• realise that in tho 'eighties Britain was perhaps nearer to revolution than at any time in recent years.
SOON came Foot Guards, with bayonets tixed and ball cartridge in their pouches. While they lined the north side The youthful Labour move of the Square the cavalry rode ment at times despaired of up and down in the roads. In attaining any of its aims con- half an hour the thousands had stitutionally. London saw the gone, taking with them bleeding and bruised limbs and first hunger marches, street hoida meetings became battle-grounds, leaving hundreds of their com-
rades under arrest.
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THAT was the position approximately with the arrival
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Some of the prisoners were trial at the Old Bailey in the
In the meantime a man named William Linnell had died in Charing Cross Hospital from injuries received in Trafalgur Square.
Thousands flocked to his funeral at Bow Common. William Morris, Annie Besant and others long famous made speeches at the grave-side. Falling dark- ness brought uproar. Eerio figures struggled among gaunt tomb-stones, and many whe went to the grave-yard, na mourners
away under orrest.
came
Failure at Trafalgar Square magnified the importance of the free speech campaign. Many of its most ardent supporters were dissatisfied with the result of "Bloody Sunday," and the Glad- stone Club of Bermondsey then, as now, well in the van of the Left-passed a resolution con- demning the conduct of the police and advocating a new effort to hold a meeting in the Square.
Gladstone wrote soberly in
great part of the country is, fore be closed arbitrarily.
Labour and Radical leaders given over to insecurity and violence. The military authori- burned with indignation at this ties have been doing their best denial of what they regarded as Councils with the resources at their dis- an inalienable right.
of war were held, and on the grey posal, but they have so far com-
Sunday which was November pletely failed to check the
13 the Square was to
assert apreading of rebellion. As a re- sult the prestige of Great free meeting and to proteat next day sentenced to terms of following January and were reply: "The question is one of and it will be Britain is rapidly sinking to a 'against the imprisonment of up to six months' imprisonment. sentenced to six weeks' hard great moment to the inhabitants
most important two- labour for "inciting to unlawful of London ... very low ebb. On the Jewish Editor William O'Brien as an The
generally felt that the state of Graham, M.P. assembly." side there is a growing belief infringement of the freedom of Cuninghame
(afterwards a famous writer), A charge of assaulting the law in regard to it, ought to be that she is not seriously exert the Press.
With bannora flying and bands and John Burns, captured on the police and rioting was not pro- promptly tested and ascertained.. But it appears to me indisputable ing herself to restore law and
that until a decision can be had order, while the Arabs are bc-playing, sombre armies of unem corner of the Strand-went for ceeded with.
It is the duty of every citizen to coming ever more confident that ployed and workmen converged
[refrain from all resistance to the with a sufficient intensification on the Square from every part
of London. of violence, they will ultimately be able to force the Mandatory to a revision of the partition policy,
What is chiefly remarkable is that the British administration seems to have learned nothing from the earlier revolt of 1986. There was universal' agreement with the verdict of the Peel Commission that that revolt as-
Mounted police rode among the processions in a vain effort to break them up, and there were fights in Holborn, the Strand, Parliament Street.
Many scattered, but thousands reached the Square. Charge after charge was made against the ranks of police, who used
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sumed the dimensions it did posals put forward by the Peel owing to hesitancy and Irresolu- Commission and endorsed by tion in taking drastle measures the British Government. The of suppression at the outset. Arabs have at no time concealed Yet to all appearances exactly hatred of that plan and they re- the same thing has happened fused to co-operato with the again now. With the aid of the Woodhead Commission fh its fresh British reinforcementa at task of filling in the details of present on their way it la per-
partition. haps possible to hope that the conflagration will shortly be brought under control. There can be little doubt that the be decided quickly, for the pro- flames have been fanned by out- longed uncertainty is itself one] side agencies who rejoice to see of the most potent factora mak- this country involved in trouble. ing for disturbance. Once the At the same time it is also not decision is taken and the Govern- to be disputed that the rebellion mont have proclaimed their firm reflects the genuine hostlilty of determination to enforce it the the majority of the Arab com. irrevocable is likely to be more munity to the partition pro- readily accepted,
The main requirement is that- whatever is to bo, decided shall
GRIN AND BEAR IT
I NEE FRESCE
By Lichty decision of the executive govern-
53 Katoul BANK
"See! I told you it was Charlie Snodgrass of our
never forget a breath!”
vice PRESIDENTS
ment, which is clearly entitled to administer the laws according to what it may be advised is their true construction.".
THIS letter divided the ranks of those who were anxious for another trial of strongth. Eventually it was decided to hold the next proteat in Hyde Park, where the police could not interfere.
In alarm which was not shared by Londoners generally the Home Office asked for 20,000 to 30,000 special constables In cake of trouble. Only a quarter of that number could be raised, but the meeting passed off with- out disturbanco and they wero never required.
Compared with the events of "Bloody Sunday" the recent squabbles of Fascist and Com munist seem insignificant. Pro gressives have learned to get their demands in quieter WKYL "Bloody Sunday!! -in a turd page in British adcial history. and one 'which is: fading on. memory with the passing of the Jardent men who took, part in it.