Show I r-r r i ewi fl I II I rON ETTER I t l S I RECALLS nOT HOT DAYS IX IN ARGENTINE 1 By CHARLES CH P STEWART RT I NE Service Ice Writer WASHINGTON May While H-While I i a general strIke In England Is ot of course none of mis country's bus bus- business inca iness yet et the recent labor tie up tie there was w as viewed with not a II little littie trepidation by official Washington Any strike Is y ris-y but an ali all Inclusive one creates a situation which simply cant can't go on Unless theres there's II a a settlement theres there's there bound to be b a fight tight What's What hats more every ever everybody's everybody's body's bound to be Involved on one side or the th other Its It's It impossible to bo be neutral when a general strikes strike's on S S Nobody who never ne was In a gen gen- general general sen-eral sen eral strike can h vo h-vo vo the least real Idea Idell how frightfully It gums g things up Some Som of or the dispatches have h TC ro- ro r erred So to England England's as only th second In history the tho one In Ger Germany I Ger-I Ger- Ger Germany many at lit th the tho time of ot the th Dr Knapp I putsch having ha been the first I This may be truo true as to general g strikes on a I national scale but on ona ona a wide city-wide and partly on a na- na national na national scale the th South American east cast coast had a a perfect epidemic of them directly following the war and ond well some of ot the Latin Amen can diplomats In Washington now remember what they were like I The b best st of the th lot I participated tn in as an Innocent b bystander tander roy roy- myself my myself self I It happened In Buenos Duenos Aires n Aire city of ot about so that It was no small early affair affair early In In 1913 1019 S S S SEvery E Every Ery ry single tingle soul In that town worked tor for wages Quit down quit downto to the last hired girl g They didn't all want to by any means but to 10 tobe obo be caught w working for anybody was only about one and one half one second preliminary to being un- un unceremoniously unceremoniously un unceremoniously ceremoniously bumped of otc oft f Food stopped coming coining In Hotels had to close cloro UI up So did stores tores You had no means of o getting away unless you walked There piers Ther wasn't I wa any police protection The Tho cop cop- coppers coppers cop copper pers per all had to be b kept concen concen- concentrated concentrated at headquarters headquarter to save eav Em front from being belne killed It If somebody tried to stick you ou up you had to fork over pr unless you ou could make mak good 00 1 with your our own gat President was w scare scared and fiddled for time Finally the bourgeoIsie YAnk o an old army officer General out of retirement and put him on the tho job S S S SHe Ho He virtually was Wall wa dictator ai- ai al III although though after after the lh crisis was WIl over o not caring for that kind of ot thing lIe l didn't hang onto the th dictator dictator- dictatorship dictatorship ship called In all the near near- nearby nearby by troops troop and started to straight straight- straighten en cn things thing out The strikers fought back Machine guns gun n began bi Kan to go goeff off eff tat Rat You heard beard beardt t that hat all over town for three days das and three thren nights The official death list Hit was some some- something something thing over 00 and they only count count- counted counted ed the tho ones vio were formally brought In ana an c ald out lit In the morgue S S S won out I can re- re remember remember re remember member to this jay OJay y how that oIl coot looked around the tho streets In an automobile with his long white whit whiskers fluttering be- be behind be behind hind him to go fa fast l en- en enough enough en enough ough so o h he couldn't b be hit by a bomb Such Is my roy experience with gen gen- general general gen general eral strikes No wonder th state stat department and some ome others other oth rs looked seriouS rlou when the they heard that Americas America's four dollar billion debtor had hod one going on full blast 00 00 |