The Evening News (London), 7 May 1926, fourth day of the General Strike (strike-time single sheet)

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EVENING NEWS
Largest Evening Net Sale in the World.
Friday: May 7, 1926. One Penny.

LONDON DISTRICT FORECAST:- Showery, cold. Further outlook: changeable, cold.

FOURTH DAY OF STRIKE:- More trains and buses are running. (details below). The "Evening News" Political Correspondent says that certain influences for peace are believed to be at work. They are necessarily very tentative and cautious. It is believed that the finding of a basis on which mine-owners and miners could themselves re-open negotiations would provide T.U.C. with an opportunity for calling off the strike. The Cabinet met. So did the T.U.C. committee and the Miners' Executive (separately). In London area 75,000 volunteers are now enrolled. Sir John Simon has told the Commons that the general strike is illegal and that the leaders are liable in damages.

TRAINS:- [...]
L.G.O.C. BUSES:- 200 L.G.O.C. buses were running on the Aldwych - Ealing and Victoria - Golder's Green routes.
SCOTS GUARDS AT DEPTFORD:- Socialist-controlled Deptford Borough Council refused to assist Government. A battalion of Scots Guards is stationed behind locked gates at Deptford Cattle Market. Six destroyers arrived in local dock as precaution. At London Docks volunteers are loading and unloading under protection; priority to perishable goods.
CRICKET:- No play before lunch except: Australians 537 for 9 (Hendry 71)
THE CITY TO-DAY:- [...]

GENERAL STRIKE ILLEGAL. SIR JOHN SIMON'S WARNING.
In Commons late last night Sir John Simon, K.C., said: When the disturbance was over it would be very necessary to appreciate that this general strike was not a strike at all. The right to strike was the right of workmen in combination, by pre-arrangement, to give due notice to employers to terminate their engagement and withdraw labour when this notice expired. T.U.C.'s decision to call out everybody regardless of contracts made by these workmen was not lawful. [...] Proclamation of a general strike, for the future of trades unionism, was a tragic blunder. [...]
MR. COOK'S SUBDUED NOTE:- Mr. Cook, the Miners' Secretary, said to Press Association, "I am still hoping common sense will prevail and that the miners will get a fair settlement."
ARRESTED FOR FALSE NEWS:- Two men arrested in Marylebone to-day for selling leaflets stating falsely that Liverpool police had struck. [...]
YOUR FOOD ARRIVES:- Milk supply and distribution good; over 50% arrived by train [...]
MR. MACDONALD AND PEACE:- Mr. Ramsay Macdonald said this afternoon in the Lobby: "We are not letting a moment pass unused for some attempt to devise ways of peace and accommodation."
DISTURBANCES:- Petrol transport was interfered with at Fulham and Hackney last night and at the Elephant and Hammersmith hooligans tried to hold up motor traffic. [...]

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