IN HOUSE OF LORDS
GOVERNMENT MUST BE
RECOGNISED,
(Australian-New Zealand Cablu Assn.) LONDON", o'th May. In the House of Lords, tho Marquis of Salisbury moved approval of the strike regulations. The Archbishop of Canterbury said: '' Every support must be given to pro-
vent the men's leaders acting as a sort of oligarchy usurping the functions of Government. Simultaneously we must work for a solution, giving an assurance that nobody is trying to lower the workers' standard of life." Lork Buckmaster said that he did not think the Government could have avoided the disaster, which was planned from the beginning. Lord Birkenhead stated that the Government was not, and would not be, prepared to negotiate so long as a threat was held out against constitutional government. The quarrel could only end by the recognition that there was only one Government. He asked "Do Viscount Haldane and his colleagues approve a general strike?" Viscount Haldane: "I urged the continuance of negotiations." Lord Birkenhead: "I leave it there. No single former Labour Minister here darea say he approves a general strike.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 108, 7 May 1926, Page 7
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