Chapter 1523 – Coping with General Strike

Waiting for the phone to hang up, Anna smoothly grabbed the handle dissatisfiedly muttered, “Pamela’s son is engaged, so you made a special trip over here, my son you never cared about.”

“Your son is so excellent that he doesn’t need me to worry about it, but I’ve always been secretly and silently concerned.” Alan Wilson immediately begged for mercy.

The supreme authority had never been so passive in his life, and was close to kneeling down and kowtowing one to the spy who was obsessing about an old incident from over thirty years ago, and broke off in a rush, “The whole world would be happy if they knew you were happy.”

“I’m just not convinced, why should I be treated differently.” Anna huffed and spoke, “I don’t care, when Koch and Hans get married, you have to make a special trip over as well, you absolutely can’t let it go like this.”

“No problem!” Alan Wilson neck right twisted, a look of a hundred ruble mobilized soldier who is about to step into the battlefield, in his heart, he has already prepared to go to the fire in the heart.

But even the supreme authority in his fifties, still running for the country’s affairs of the family, and his wife and the same status of the lady is not at all sympathetic to him, always in the slightest treatment of the issue of catty.

Alan Wilson’s witnessing the engagement of his good oldest son on this side of the Bonn, though it fell within the category of all simplicity, really did not lend itself to a great deal of fussing in England at the present time in terms of domestic opinion. Callaghan’s statement after his return from his visit was not very satisfactory.

The Sun, the famous master of rhythm, headlined “Crisis? What Crisis?” with the subtitle “Railroads, Roads, Jobs a Mess – and Jim Blames the Media,” accusing Callahan of being “out of touch,” although Callahan did not use even one of the above words. Although Callaghan did not use even one of the above words, he did deny that Britain was in chaos.

The Sun’s beat adds fuel to the fire. This phrase would also follow Callaghan throughout his life.

Jim, as he was known to those familiar with Callaghan, was the Minister The play’s archetype blended a number of Labor Prime Ministers, with the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer having an uneasy relationship with Adderley’s persona.

The Prime Minister’s tenure is a clear shadow of Harold Wilson’s, as far as the name is attributed to Callaghan.

The Sun could not have taken a better shot at the Prime Minister, the Sun’s readers don’t care who runs the country, only if it’s front and center, and is the physical embodiment of offshore balance of several British newspapers, the essence of the churning of shit is all in the Sun.

While Callaghan was being blasted by The Sun, the leader of the Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, has been calling for a national emergency to bring the strike under control in its first week, and she has been calling for reforms that have been described as stepping stones.

Demanding that unions ban picketing by workers who don’t have strikes as their sole objective, banning the requirement for companies to hire only union members, requiring a secret ballot to agree before striking and no-strike agreements in many industries healthcare, fire, police etc.

The Conservatives, while supporting the unions’ demand for a pay rise this time around, have maintained their insistence on not compromising the unions in other areas. Pay rises are fine, but strikes cannot be used as a means of holding the government to ransom, and on this point the Conservatives are in line with the current Whitehall stance.

Fixed and Rhodesia royal territory, establish a deeper relationship, listening to Bibi chattering Grace, Alan Wilson could not help but open his mouth, “Do you want me to be looking for a few young talents, and a few of your local heads of state are all joined in marriage?”

“That’s not what I meant. It’s just that the engagement is too sketchy.” Grace also took it as it came, and now he was relieved that at least his peace of mind in Africa could be backed up by England.

Even if this is the meaning, Alan Wilson is not afraid, he also really has a command, can call over the young talent and Rhodesia marriage ability, Princess Margaret’s son of special status can not be messed up, other and his wife the same status of the ladies and.

Returning to London by the time the temperature dropped again, because of the strike issue, the trade unions and the government deadlocked, thousands of Britons began to apply for unemployment benefits.

Mrs. Thatcher made a party broadcast in which she said, as an Englishwoman rather than a politician, “I will not be making a party manifesto tonight, the crisis situation in our homeland no longer permits me to do so”, in which she accused the unions of being too powerful so that “every man can kill the country”. “.

“It has been decided on the union’s side to launch a national general strike in support of the truckers’ strike, including workers in every public sector, firefighters, the public service, the National Railway Association, and the Medical and Nursing Association.”

Just back in London, the Home Office permanent undersecretary, Brewster, brought news that definitely could not be considered good, “The unions this time want the government to abolish the issue of the limit on pay rises altogether, and in a joint statement by the major unions, compared this general strike to the 1926 general strike.”

Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows and replied with a smile, “And that’s to think we’ll compromise? What does the Cabinet say, and is there nothing that we, the Labor government, which has always stood with the British working class, would like to say about this strike action, which has already been compared to the 1926 General Strike before it has even begun?”

The 1926 General Strike, the largest strike movement in British history, began with the coal workers and peaked at six million participants, with workers in the electrical, iron and steel, railroad, building and printing industries in addition to the coal industry.

All the big industrial centers were paralyzed. Under these circumstances the Government was obliged to introduce an emergency transport service for essential supplies, and thousands of special police were employed, buses and trains being driven by volunteers.

“The Prime Minister has stated that he will never back down and is willing to pay any price in the face of such unreasonable demands.” Brewster relayed the information he had received from the Home Secretary, “This is a very serious threat.”

“No problem then, come on.” Alan Wilson nodded, “To prevent bloodshed, we recommend the RCMP be deployed, and the government should understand that this kind of mass event can easily get out of hand, so as a precaution, tanks won’t need to be put out, machine guns will? Convey Whitehall’s view on the matter.”

The appetite of the major trade unions, finally, has grown to the point where even the Labor government can not satisfy, before the arrival of the general strike, the president of the Transportation Unification Union, Jones, articulated a twenty percent pay increase can be negotiated, was rejected by Alan Wilson without hesitation, Whitehall declared to the public, “The British Empire is not yet so lacking that there is not enough manpower to go on strike, regardless of the workers of any industry strike, London can find enough skilled workers around the world if it wants to.”

Whitehall’s statement even surprised Mrs. Thatcher, for once he had underestimated the Cabinet Secretary, Whitehall really had the guts to stand hard against what was claimed to be the biggest strike since 1926.

“Clear out a special airstrip for me, keep the international airports open twenty-four hours a day, call in the Malayan ex-soldiers and take over all public facilities that are going on strike.” Alan Wilson gave several orders in quick succession before rushing to 10 Downing Street to meet the Prime Minister, who was now left to see whether he was going to continue to backtrack to meet the demands of the striking unions, or to draw a line under the demands of the unions that had been met with such lust in recent years.

When confronted with Alan Wilson’s inquiry as to what to do about the striking workers, Callaghan was silent for a long time, “If the union’s conditions are too harsh, the striking workers can be temporarily dismissed.”

“Honorable Prime Minister, very courageous, I believe Mrs. Thatcher will also be shocked by the Prime Minister’s courage.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth in a serious manner, but he saw it as a good thing that the government’s concessions had finally and continually amplified the greed of the unions, believing that all they had to do was go further and the government would compromise.

It’s a bad decision for a Labor government to make, after all, Labor has long prided itself on representing the working class.

But when you think about it the other way around, it’s not incomprehensible that in the end the Labor government would take a hard line; Labor wouldn’t really vote for the Soviet Union, and the Tories would really dare to vote for the United States.

Prior to the strike, unions in various industries had already begun to put forward the aims of the strike one after another, such as the Royal Medical Association’s demand for a twenty-five percent pay rise, to which the government did not respond.

There was also the Postmen’s Association who wanted a sixty pound weekly pay rise, the Gravediggers demanded a fifteen percent pay rise, etc., and January 22, was the day of action that the major unions were talking about.

London’s sanitation workers went on strike, uncollected garbage quickly filled garbage cans, and people began dumping their garbage in parks, marking the beginning of the Great Strike of early 1979.

“Dump all the garbage into the middle of the major squares in London.” Alan Wilson took the phone and ordered the military drivers, “The workers love this spectacle, so let them see it.”

In the face of a strike by medical personnel, the media has made the inability of citizens to receive medical care the focus of its coverage, while at London International Airport, airliners from Xiangjiang and Malaya are full of medical personnel from both places, and British troops stationed overseas, are returning to their home countries on military planes speaking of the military’s medical personnel, and the Rheinland Group of armies stationed in Germany is no exception.

In the face of how to cope with the strike by undertakers and gravediggers, Whitehall announced to the public that burials during the strike could be considered to take the form of burials at sea.