British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin says he’d be happy to resume negotiations – after the General Strike™ is called off. He issues an appeal to the British people, saying “Constitutional Government is being attacked,” asking “all good citizens” to “bear with fortitude and patience” any hardships from the strike, which he calls “the road to anarchy and ruin.” He talks about the law, which is “in your keeping,” without naming any actual laws that are being broken.
NYT stringer T. R. Ybarra, the son of a former Venezuelan minister of war, is content to report from his office: “The sentence I am writing was interrupted a few minutes ago by the noise of an angry scuffle in the street outside.” Strikers are trying to prevent the distribution of newspapers from the nearby London Times building.
The unions respond to the government’s British Gazette by starting their own paper, The British Worker, edited by Hamilton Fyfe, editor of the Daily Herald. Partly due to a shortage of paper, the Worker will never reach the circulation the Gazette achieved.
AP says that following the killing of Assistant State’s Attorney William McSwiggin, “‘Scarface’ Al Caponi [sic]” and “One-Eyed Dick” have fled to Manitoba. As funny as it would be if one of Capone’s gang were called “One-Eyed Dick,” I’m pretty sure none ever were.
Sinclair Lewis refuses the Pulitzer Prize (with its $1,000) he was awarded for Arrowsmith. He says prizes make authors seek “alien rewards” rather than quality and a group like the Pulitzer jury should not become the arbiter of quality, like the French Academy. Ralph Pulitzer says Lewis “has the right to refuse any prize awarded to him, whether he does so from principle or from self-exploitation.”
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