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Show I ENGLAND'S PERPLEXITIES. I here is just enough smoke to indicate that the flames of Bolshevism Bol-shevism have spread to England. At a meeting of the British labor 'leaders in London yesterday, resolutions were adopted in opposition opposi-tion to interfering with the Kussian campaign on the Polish border, and J. H. Thomas, secretary of the National Union of Railway Men, said that, if circumstances demanded, it would be for the whole labor j movement to decide upon direct action. "Desperate and dangerous as is our method." he continued, "we believe that the disease is so dangerous and the situation so! .desperate that it is only desperate and dangerous meihods that .an) prevent calamity The resolutions do not mean that it is to be a I .mere strike or a simple 'down tools' policy, h they are to be effective, ef-fective, the mean a challenge to the whole constitution of this coun-Robert coun-Robert Smillie of the miners' organization, said. "If France and General Wrangel cut off Russia's coal supply, will it be interfering too much with France if th. British miners and railway men cut off France's supplj ?" It is the possibility of tins radical action on the part of labor; .unions in England that causes Lloyd George to seek a way out of the 1 Russian tangle without militarj aggressiveness by Great Britain. No premier of Great Britain ever has had a more difficult situ-i tation than that now confronting Lloyd George. His country is try-I ing to turn away from all thought of the strain and stress and the blood of war, but there remains a greal work undone in pacifying the world and snuffing out the flame of anarchy. I'nless Greal Britain plays a courageous part, now that America refuses to take any action, there may sweep through Europe the horrors of Die red terror |