ford Birkenhead's Query in House of Lord's Debate London, May 8. sat the beginning of an issue unexperienced and that the Govern-the House ing a motion to continue Emergency Powers Act, which carried without a division.
Lerd Birkenhead declared that the [Government at present did not intena to interfere with peaceful picketing but it was unable to give an assurance that this would be the last of the demands the Government would have to make of Parliament, The speaker reiterated that the Government was not prepared to! negotiate as long as the threat the general strike held the fcld.
Lord Buckmaster, supporting the motion on behalf of the Liberals, spoke of "one of the most wanton exercises of tyrannical power the country had been called on to meet centuries."
The debate produced a dialogue between Lord Haldane and. Lord Birkenhead when the latter demandced a clear, unequivocal statement a to whether Lord Haldane approved the general strike, The burden of the Lubou: peer's contributions was that the negotiations ought tobe FOREIGN WORKERS' ATTITUDE, Support from Denmark and Germany: Sympathetic Strike in France Copenhagen, May 6.
The Danish General Workers? n has stated that if a request for support is received from the British strikers it would be difficult to refuse in view of the help British labour afforded the Danish strikers in the spring.—Reuter.
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