Today -100: May 14, 1926: Our resisting powers are unimpaired

British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin says he won’t “countenance” employers using the collapse of the General Strike™ to reduce wages or increase hours. Oh he’ll totally countenance that. Hell, he is totally countenancing that right now.

The Trades Union Congress says it will resist to the utmost “any attempt to impose humiliating terms” on returning workers; “Our resisting powers are unimpaired.” In other news: employers are totally imposing humiliating terms on returning workers, or not (so far) taking them back at all. And the TUC’s resisting powers are totally impaired.

Jesus, Marshal Józef Klemens Piłsudski’s coup required only 2,500 troops to seize Warsaw. Pres. Stanisław Wojciechowski is (falsely) reported to have been arrested.

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