ANTICIPATED IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 35, 10 February 1926, Page 9

ANTICIPATED IN BRITAIN

FEAR OF GENERAL STRIKE IN MAY,

HOME SECRETARY ON GOVERN.Jii^.;,' MENT'S. PLANS. . t __. (United Press Association-Copyright.) (Reuters Telegram.) (Received IOCTT February, 9 a.m.) i LONDON, 9th February. Sir William Joynson Hicks, Home Secretary, in a speech at Ipswich, said that there might be very grave trouble in the country in the course of another two or three months. The responsibility rested on the Government to deal with the position, if it arose, not in the way of strike-breaking, but tj see that the lives of the people were not imperilled, that food was available, and that commerce, as far as possible, proceeded on its course. The Government had certain arrangements in view, but he had noticed that the London Labour Party bad decided not to have anything to do. with the Government's plans. , Let them beware, he said, for the State was more powerful than any section of the community. He appealed to men and women of all parties to help the community in time of dire necessity, if it arose, in the shape of anything of the nature of a general strike beginning in May.

The State subsidy to the coal industry lapßes in May, unless it is renewed. To this course the British Home Secretary is opposed. . > •