--- title: The British Gazette, No. 2, 6 May 1926 (government strike newspaper) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/british-gazette-no-2-general-strike-1926/ description: Front page of the government's emergency newspaper on day three of the General Strike. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The British Gazette, No. 2, 6 May 1926 (government strike newspaper)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/british-gazette-no-2-general-strike-1926.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/british-gazette-no-2-general-strike-1926.jpg) # The British Gazette, No. 2, 6 May 1926 (government strike newspaper) Front page of the government's emergency newspaper on day three of the General Strike. Headlines 'Nation calm and confident' and 'Volunteers in large numbers' report the strike as failing, and a boxed message from the Prime Minister calls the strike 'the road to anarchy and ruin' and invokes 'the liberties and privileges of the people'. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` The British Gazette Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office No. 2. LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1926. ONE PENNY. NATION CALM AND CONFIDENT Gradual Recommencement of the Railway Services. GOOD FUEL AND FOOD SUPPLIES. Volunteers In Large Numbers At All The Centres. OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. A comprehensive survey of the situation on the second day of the General Strike shows the following salient features:- An important part of the business of the country is held up, and increasing loss and inconvenience are falling upon all classes. Ample forces are available to maintain order. [remainder of column not transcribed] FOREIGN VIEWS OF THE STRIKE. Liberty and the State. THE WAY OF FASCISM. ROME, May 4. [column not transcribed] "ORGANISED MENACE." The Real Issue Behind the General Strike. But Door Still Open. [column not transcribed] T.U.C. FLOUTED Hospital without Electricity. WORK DISORGANISED. Operating Theatres Closed. [column not transcribed] MESSAGE FROM THE PRIME MINISTER Constitutional Government is being attacked. Let all good citizens whose livelihood and labour have thus been put in peril bear with fortitude and patience the hardships with which they have been so suddenly confronted. Stand behind the Government, who are doing their part, confident that you will co-operate in the measures they have undertaken to preserve the liberties and privileges of the people of these islands. The laws of England are the people's birthright. The laws are in your keeping. You have made Parliament their guardian. The General Strike is a challenge to Parliament and is the road to anarchy and ruin. STANLEY BALDWIN. NOTICE TO PRINTING TRADE. Official. [text not transcribed] YORKSHIRE INCIDENTS. Bands of Pickets hold up Private Cars. CHANNEL SERVICES. Shorter Routes Still Open. FOOD SUPPLY NORMAL. PICKETS AND FOOD. Men Fined For Disorderly Conduct. MOTOR-COACH HELD UP. WHY WALK TO WORK? ASHORE ON GOODWINS. FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS. Mrs. Baldwin's Transport Organisation. [body text of the smaller columns not transcribed] ``` Headlines, masthead and the Prime Minister's message read from the 1280px image; the dense body columns are mostly not transcribed. Read by Claude from the image, not checked against a published transcription. [← The British Worker, No. 1, 5 May 1926 (TUC official strike news bulletin)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/british-worker-no-1-general-strike-1926/) [The Evening News (London), 7 May 1926, fourth day of the General Strike (strike-time single sheet) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/evening-news-london-4th-day-general-strike-1926/) ## Using the same techniques - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (Qing China · 1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. - [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (United Kingdom · Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating)