Not since the days of tyrant George III has British Royalty summered at Weymouth. There last week met the paunchy delegates of organized British labor, the Trades Union Congress. Eight years ago their Council frightened the Empire by declaring a general strike, in many respects the most alarming and seditious event in the reign of George V (TIME, May 10. 1926). Last week the T. U. C. met in chastened mood.
Last year the Labor Party Conference, political spokesman for the T. U. C., adopted a resolution threatening a general strike should His...
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