Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This last declaration is practically equivalent to the statement that until American labor changes its policy, there will never be a general strike in this country. With each trade having its own wage agreement, it cannot go on strike merely in sympathy with the strike of another group...
Meanwhile the British Trade Union Council announced plans for a "general strike," to take effect unless the owners "withdrew" their so-called "lockout" notices-the purport of the Council's manifesto being, of course, a threat to strike unless employment was offered to miners at a higher rate...
...most Englishmen consider fundamental: "freedom of the press." The Cabinet decided, on the basis of such evidence as was at its disposal (naturally an unguessable quantity to outsiders), that this attack upon the freedom of the press had been made at the instigation or with the approval of the Trade Union Council. Upon this premise, a further decision was made and announced: that negotiations would not be resumed with the Labor leaders until they withdrew their general strike program...
...Cabinet then left its council room. The door was locked. When members of the Trade Union Council subsequently sought admission, "the lights were out and no one was within," according to the statement of J. H. Thomas, conservative and well-to-do Labor leader. Rebuffed, the Trade Union Council proceeded with the "general strike," denied that it had ordered the Daily Mail strike...
...Macdonald and Mr. Thomas both declared that the Trade Union Council had accepted Mr. Baldwin's compromise plan and were trying to get the Coal Miners' Federation to accept it when the Cabinet "locked its door and turned out the lamp of justice." Premier Baldwin replied that he was "honestly not quite sure" whether or not the Trade Union Council had accepted his plan; but that anyhow the Daily Mail strike had "completely changed the whole situation." The Laborites vowed that they had known nothing of the Mail incident at the time...