GENERAL STRIKE CONTINUES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 108, 7 May 1926, Page 7

GENERAL STRIKE CONTINUES

PREMIERS DEMAND TO CALL IT OFF

DECLINED BY COUNCIL OF TRADES UNION CONGRESS

STILL WILLING TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS

UNCONDITIONALLY

(United Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, 6th Maj It is understood that the P rime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, on behalf of the Trades Council, are conferring with a view to reaching a basis of negotiations for a settlement of the strike. There is also great activity among the Labour leaders. Dramatic developments are expected. - (Eeceived 7th May, noon.) The General Council of the Trades Union Congress has issued a statement refusing without (ju aliflcation Mr. Baldwin's demand that it should call off the general strike before a resumption of negotiations. The Council reiterates that i t is still willing to resume negotiations unconditionally.

LONDON, 6th May. Following the conversation between Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Thomas, Mr. MacDonald saw Mr. Cook and Mr. Herbert Smith, and discussed the situation. Two days of general strike have produced a feeling in the lobby of the utter unreasonableness of the attitude into which the parties have drifted. Many Conservatives have been impressed by the tone of the speeches from the Labour benches, while the Labourites clearly recognise the risk of the party being identified with a general strike policy, to the detriment of its political future. There is a strong hope that to-morrow may produce a formula that will permit the strike to be ended before it gets beyond the control of its authors.