Series 5 > Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 12

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MISCELLANY XII
PAISLEY STRIKE BULLETIN
[9 May 1926]'
PRICE ONE PENNY.
Government spokesmen maintain that the present strike is directed against the
Constitution. This every intelligent citizen will dismiss as being absurd. One
million at least of the worken who are on strike are men who, during the Great
War, made every sort of sacrifice on active service. Loyalty to the Constitution
is not associated in their minds with starvation wages to the British worker.
On the other hand, respect for national tradition impels them to resist to the
uttermost any attempt to drive wage rates down to the levels of‘Cooliedom’.
Labour leaders have offered to withdraw the strike if lock-out notices are also
withdrawn. If the strike were directed at the Constitution such an offer could
never be made. We appeal, therefore, to all fair minded people, irrespective
of rank or station, to support us in our defence of civilized standards. History
is being made to-day by those millions of humble people of Britain, Printen,
Railwaymen, Transport Workers, Engineers and Builden, who rather than
see the British miner starved and degraded have risked all in one supreme effort
to save him.
OUR CARTOONIST hopes to be on the job again to-morrow when
something of special interest to railwaymen will appear.
PUBLISHED BY STRIKE COMMITTEE, CUMBERLAND
COURT, PAISLEY.
TRAMWA Y SER VICE IN GLASGOW.
Some University men have taken the places of tramwaymen who are on strike.
It would be fitting, perhaps, if the tramwaymen reciprocated and found places
in the Univenity.
PRINTING TRADES
The surprise packet of the strike has been the Scottish Typographical Associa¬
tion. Hats off to the printer and the printer’s Devil. He appears to be a dour
yin.
TRADE UNION MESSAGE, FROM GENERAL COUNCIL
‘The General Council of the Trades Union Congress appeals to the workers
to follow the instructions that have been issued by their Union leaders.
Violence and disorder must be everywhere avoided, no matter what the
incitement. Stand firm and we shall win’.
1 The usual heading of worker with folded arms, leaning picks and two railway engines. Below the heading
is standing, to left, a figure representingjesus Christ, with his ami round the shoulders of a small child
and gesturing toward a pithead marked Lock-out, with the sub-caption: CHRIST COMES TO
INDUSTRY.