GENERAL STRIKE IN BRITAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 4 May 1926, Page 7

GENERAL STRIKE IN BRITAIN

FAILURE OF NEGOTIATIONS ANNOUNCED

GOVERNMENT ISSUES STATEMENT

DECLARING TRADES UNION CONGRESS RESPONSIBLE

There seems little hope now of averting a general strike In Britain. The Government has. issued a statement declaring the Trades Union Congress responsible for instructions for a general strike, and for overt unconstitutional acts ready, and demands an immediate and unconditional withdrawal <.' tho strike order. Meanwhile elaborate arrangements have b—n made to meet the emergency.

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cabki Assn.) LONDON, 2nd May. The unexpected recall of the mining leaders to London at midnight to see Mr. Baldwin gave hopes, but Cabinet finally broke up at 12.30 a.m., when it was officially announced that negotiations to avert a general strike had broken down. (Sydney Sun Cable.) LONDON, 3rd May. The Government, in a statement giving the reasons for the breakdown, declares that overt acts have already occurred, including the interference with the freedom of the Press, involving a challenge to the nation's constitutional rights. Before the continuance of negotiations, the Government demands that the Trades Union Congress, repudiate those actions immediately and unconditionally, and withdraw its instructions for a general strike.