NO CHANGE AT HOME

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 103, 5 May 1926, Page 7

NO CHANGE AT HOME

ALL CLASSES HARD HIT

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS SITS.

STRIKE DOMINATES DEBATE.

GOVERNMENT'S IMMENSE ACTIVITY. MANY MEASURES OF PROTECTION. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN LONDON. There is no sign that the deplorable general strike in I England -will end in the near future. i Tke unexpected determination of the Government to fight those who are responsible for this most grave crisis has i surprised the Labour leaders. The Government is using Hyde Park for a central depot. Hosts of -workers are digging up the lawns, erecting buildings, , and collecting huge quantities of stores. ; All public services throughout England are utterly disorganised, and every oil-driven vehicle, however ancient, is in use. People who went to work by any means available did not know how they were to get back home. Millions of London workers live long distances from the city. There have, apparently, been no-disturbances. Troops are being moved freely, and armed car patrols are frequent in many towns. The House of Commons sat and talked Budget, but thought Strike, the one subject throughout the realm. The newspaper business is entirely dislocated, although the "Daily Mail" printed 50,000 copies in Manchester and sold it in London. This paper declares that Britain will have no Lenins or Trotskys, and protests vigorously at the tyrrany of those who are misleading the strikers. News is being broadcasted by the Government throughout the kingdom. The United States of America, Germany and other countries are taking the keenest interest in this disastrous strike.