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[Special Constables being thanked for their service during the strike by the Lord Mayor of London, a slide for a , included in the archives of Henry Sara]

The Council is engaged in an Industrial dispute. There is no Constitutional crisis"

, 7 May 1926

Sir Herbert Samuel opens private talks with the Trades Union Congress, offering his services as a mediator, the miners' representatives are not informed.

The Trades Union Congress General Council contradicts the Prime Minister's statement yesterday that "constitutional government is being attacked", replying that "."

The BBC broadcasts a government announcement that "." The announcement will also be printed in .

William Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, makes - asking for another fifty thousand men to be sworn in by Monday morning ("Surely there must be another thirty thousand men in London willing and anxious to serve their country for a few days or even weeks in this crisis?").

The Archbishop of Canterbury, on behalf of leaders of the Christian churches, puts forward proposals for a settlement. The BBC refuses to broadcast them.

'The British Gazette' is discussed in the House of Commons, with some opposition members complaining that the official government newspaper is providing . The Liberal MP Commander Kenworthy makes an appeal that "nothing should be put into this official organ to inflame the passions of the hooligans of the Right to acts which would bring reprisals and lead to things which we would regret in calmer times."

At the request of the National Sailors’ and Firemen's Union, a court injunction is granted against several of the union's Liverpool branches, preventing them from ordering their members out on strike before a ballot is taken.

A.J. Cook, General Secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, calls off his intended visit to the International Miners’ Conference in Ostend.

The Trades Union Congress General Council reduces the size of its newspaper, , by half, as the government blocks the TUC's access to supplies of paper.

Isabel Brown, a school teacher and Communist, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for making a seditious speech in Castleford, Yorkshire.

The headquarters of the Communist Party in Birmingham are raided by the police, and people engaged in printing the news sheet 'Birmingham Worker' are arrested.

The out-patients department of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children will be closed until further notice.

Police baton-charge in Hull, after strikers try to prevent volunteers enrolling at the City Hall.

Three men in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, sentenced to three months imprisonment for smashing windows. .

Selected sources:

• Summaries of BBC news broadcasts:
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• , emergency newspaper issued by the government
• , official strike news bulletin of the Trades Union Congress
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• , 5.30pm
• , 12.30pm
• , illustrated emergency edition
• , emergency edition
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• , Trades Union Congress leaflet, [1926]