STRIKE AFTERMATH.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1926, Page 2

STRIKE AFTERMATH.

[Australia & N.Z; Cable Association.] LONDON, May IG. The “Central News” quotes wliat it states is good authority for its view that the actual cost to the Government in coping with the general strike would he less than what the coal strike cost in 1921, when the Government measures cost £8,850,000. This is aaprfc from the general loss to the community which in 1921 was estimated at two hundred and fifty millions sterling. The similar community losses through the general strike must be much heav-

The same authority suggests that extra taxation may not at present be necessary, owing to the enormous amount of voluntary work done. Sm, The Government, says the authority. • intends to retain a skeleton of the organisation which worked successfully in overcoming the strike. It also intends to have a General Strike Book, embodying registers of the volunteers with their names and duties, as well as the lessons learned. RUSSIAN LEADERS VIEWS. LONDON, May 16. The Riga correspondent of the “Morning Post” reports that M. . Trotsky and 31. Radek admits the breakdown of the general strike means that a British revolution has not yet begun, despite the Communistic exhortutions to “ hold out like the devil.” 31. Trotsky concludes: “The British proletariat will never achieve victory as long as the bourgoisie can rely on tbe Royal Navy.” Therefore lie recommends the systematic penetration of the lower deck. BIG RUSSIAN OFFER. MOSCOW, May 16. The Soviet Trade Union Council has handed over £260,000 which was rejected by the British Trade Union Council to the Russian Miners’ Union, wliili has now telegraphed offering it to the British Miners’ Federation.