The Archive · 1926

Belated Warriors

The third days' Congrese po lightened by the action of the delegates from some of the smaller unions who took little or no part the general strike. They want-fed more powers conferred on the General Council to enable it to make such a demonstration larger its scope and more effective in faction if it were found advisable to use it again. Tt may be ase med from this that the general strike was much more enheartening looked at objectively than subpectively. The larger unions, who ere still licking their wounds, showed little sympathy with these vali-Jant warriors, and Mr. Clynes sar-Jdonically commented that he had rot noticed the Laundry Workers springing to attention when the General Strike was called. Mr. Cramp's short answer to these proposals was "Had "Some,"—which supplemented a little Inter _on commenting that he "didn't Want to discuss whether the gen-Jeral strike was a failure or a se-leess. But its success is not obtrusive. It doesn't stick out very far." The General Council was also averse the resolution was heavily defeated.

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