REDS TAKEN ABACK.
MORE ACTIVE STRIFE WANTED,
("rax tikis.")
(Received May 12th. 8.15 p.m.)
LONDON. Mav 11
The Riga correspondent of the ''Tinies'' said that the British refusal to accept the Russian contributions momentarily tools aback Moscow, hut the Bolsheviks are now declaring that the refusal was merely a tactical move for the purpose of satisfying the squeamish British public. Soviet newspapers are filled with articles exhorting the strikers to a more active class warfare.
M. Radek declares that Britain's foreign politics hare been defeated as regards Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and riiina. Now the British masses are seriously grappling wit!' Britain's Fascist Government.
MM. Trotsky. I.oznvsky and Bndek are producing a paper entitled: '• Fight Like Devils."' the proceeds of which are to assist the strikers.
Nevertheless the Bolsheviks are pieparing their readers for the collapse of the strike.
The "Pravdu" in an article explaining why the striko is certain to fail, asserts that the strikers are trying to conceal the fact that the strike is a political move. Victory, it states, is only possihlc by Lenin's methods. The leaders should have declared that they intended to overthrow the Government. Tho strikers' actions of spending leisure a;, sport is a fatal blunder, and tho only chance of victory is to accept foreigners' help, and abandon the leaders who have lamentably failed. British Communists should denounce their leaders' moderation and indecision, which will never win a revolution.
LABOUR'S PRESUMPTION.
ATTEMPT TO USURP FUNCTIONS
OF STATE,
(RSUTER's TELEGRAMS.)
LONDON. May 11
The Trades Union Council headquarters officially states that the Government has ordered the withdrawal of the Trades Union Council permits issued to several local bodies in accordance with arrangements made with local strike committees.
The Council withdrew the permits in order to avoid any conflict between the authorities and strikers. The "British Gaxette," commenting on the above, emphasises that the offer ot the Trades Union Council to assist in distributing supplies after calling a general strike was an act of constitutional presumption, and an attempt to usurp the duties of the Government and Parliament.
A view of the situation by broadcast this morning shows that the whole country continues quiet, and that transport facilities are steadily expanding, the Government protection measures being sufficient. Defections from the strikers' ranks are principally among the railwaymen. There haR been a considerable increase in unemplovment due to the closingdown of several industries.
The Enst End of London is absolutely quiet.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18690, 13 May 1926, Page 9
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