Today -100: May 9, 1926: Of rumors and radios

The British government denies rumors that soldiers are shooting at mobs of strikers (if I haven’t already said this: no one died during the General Strike™).

The Trades Union Congress was holding back some unions from striking, saving them as a second line of defense, but some of them want to join the fun and down tools anyway, including electrical and gas workers. The TUC will say Sure, fine, whatever, because what are they gonna do, tell them to go back to work?

Strike leaders reject offers of aid from the Soviet Union which haven’t actually been made. They may not know that the government banned wire transfers from abroad to stop just such aid.

The Senate Interstate Commerce Committee decides to remove control over radio from Commerce Sec. Herbert Hoover (which a federal circuit court did last month anyway, leaving no system of control at all), and assign it to a 5-person commission appointed by the president, with Senate confirmation, because radio is becoming too important in American life to be entrusted to any one person. Licenses will be issued for two-year periods. No swearing or slander will be allowed.

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