The British government calls for volunteers to maintain vital services and people are lining up in large numbers to act as scabs against the General Strike™. The British Fascisti will organize their own efforts. The government gives itself emergency powers to, among other things, seize property, food & fuel, horses, cars, and utilities, to make arrests without warrant, and billet troops in private houses.
Before the strike starts, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin says, “The government has found itself challenged by an alternative government.” He warns that the General Strike™ will bring the country “nearer to civil war than for centuries.”
The unions which are ordering strikes include the Transport and General Workers (trains, street cars, buses), electrical, building, iron & steel. That’s 2,500,000 so far.
Food and hospitals and music halls will not be affected.
Following the refusal of union printers (who are not on strike per se) to print the Daily Mail unless an anti-General Strike™ editorial was removed, more and more newspapers are not appearing. However, the Mail is now being printed in Manchester, getting to London presumably in private cars. The Daily Mirror refuses to remove a list of railway stations where people can go to volunteer for blackleg work, so its printers don’t let it appear either.
Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith wins a Pulitzer.
Carteret, NJ Police Chief Henry Harrington says black Carterethoovians who return after the racist attacks will be protected.
Geez, the Orléanist pretender to the French throne died not 5 weeks ago and now its Victor, Prince Napoléon, the Bonapartist pretender to the throne, dies at 63. He’s been fake emperor since 1879 calling himself Napoleon V. His successor is his 12-year old son Louis, henceforth Napoleon VI, who will sit on the fake throne, or possibly on the floor if he doesn’t own a fake throne, for 71 years, dying on the exact same date as Five.
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