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May 6, 1926

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GOVERNMENT PLANS WIDEN; Aim to Maintain Regular Life of Community in Spite of Strike. UNION CHIEFS CONFIDENT Assert the Walkout Is Going On According to Schedule, With Tie-Up Almost Complete. FOOD SUPPLIES ARE AMPLE People Get Plenty of Milk, Fuel and Light, While Thousands Still Volunteer to Help Out.

By T.r. Ybarra.special Cable To the New York Times

economists criticize coal mine methods

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New Ericsson Memorial Stamp Will Be Put on Sale May 29

By Special to The New York Times

Memorial stamp to be issued in his honor

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Many Mushroom Newspapers Spring Up to Amuse London

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mushroom newspapers amuse London sample sheet by London bootblack; strikers publish The British Worker; Daily Mail and London Times are out; Fox Film Co cables news of strike to its London office from N Y; ed on Zoo Notes in British Gazette

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RAILWAY SERVICE SHOWS A GAIN; Volunteer Workers Run Many Trains Between London and Its Suburbs. ROADS MUCH ENCOURAGED Signalmen's Return to London & Midland Line Regarded as a Good Sign. RAILWAY SERVICE SHOWS A GAIN

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, May 5. -- More trains were running today to and from the Liverpool Street station here on the suburban section of the London Northeastern Railway than there were passengers for them. It took THE NEW YORK TIMES correspondent an hour and a half to cover a distance of fourteen miles, it is true, but that was due to the overzeal of the volunteer train workers.

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PREMIER SAYS DOOR IS OPEN; Tells Commons He Will Negotiate the Moment Strike Is Called Off.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pleads for peace, in House

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