COAL STRIKE
SECOND EDITION
RUSSIA FEARS ITS FAILURE. TASK FOR BRITISH REDS. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 14, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, June 12. The Times’s Riga correspondent states: “The third international, declaring that the failure of the British coal strike would be a severe blow to the revolutionary movement, has ordered the workers to continue the maximum financial support, for which compulsory deductions from wages will be made. It has also drawn up a list of immediate tasks in connection with the strike for British Communists, including the enlistment of the unemployed, the publication of a Communist daily paper, the placarding of walls with news bulletins, and the stimulation of Communism in all British, industries, including shipping. “The newspaper Pravada declares that Britain’s ‘black heart already has ceased beating, and the British Empire is sinking as surely as did the liner Titanic.’ ” —Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 165, 14 June 1926, Page 8
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143COAL STRIKE Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 165, 14 June 1926, Page 8
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