rkers years later: "I remember the miners, when they heard that the Tsarist Tyranny had been overthrown, rushing to meet each other in the streets with tears streaming down their cheeks, shaking hands and saying: "At last it has happened"?
Almost at soon ai news of the revolution was roceived, mass meetings took place to proet it, Including one of is produced, It you are really sincere in sending thou and do likewise"
Provisional Committee cocted by the Convention had no agreed idea as to what part the Councils would play in greetings to Russia, I say to you: "Go Despite Williams" stiming words, the Poland to invade In 1920 the capitalist powers made another attempt to crush Sor lons. jet Russia, this time by inciting But British workers were no more prepared to accept this than they were direct military interven Lion. In the vanguard were London's dockers, who had been thoroughiy educated by the 'Hands off Russia' Committee's propaganda.
The dockers realleed that military supplies were being sent to Poland from the port of London, and ressived to put a stop to it Do 10 May, London dockers relused to load a ship, the Poland. A week later, the Dockens Union conference vated to black all munitions destined for use against POLISH OFFENSIVE In late July and curly August, the Polish offensive was broken by the Red Army and the Poles driven back to the very gates of Warsaw. The British Goverment hegan to prepare for But the workers movement was already preparing its reply. Hugu dem onstrations took place in every, city over the woekend of 8 and 9 August Monday the TUC Parliamentary Comm ittee (forerunner of today's General красит, we Labou ray смиси and the Parliamentary Labour Party held They declared that 'the whole ind ustrial power of the organised workers will be used to defeat this war", establ ished a national Council of Action to this end, and convened a representative Labour movement conferenoe for 13 The National Labour Conferenor when it met, gave the Concil of Action authotity to call for any and Following days.
Faced with such determined opp cition the Government could bol continue with its schemes, and rapidly retreated from its more warlike positInternational class solidarity had won the day, and once more the "direct action".
British military intervention: troops marching through Vladivostok, 1919 Throughout May, the "Hands of Russia Committee continued to push Lot a compan a mous accon A they said; "Mere pious resolutions won't force the hand of the Goyerment, but resolutions backed by industrial action will.* At the and of May the Triple Alli ance called for a special TUC to deal with both the Polish war and British military operations in Incland, which wore then at their height. Three weeks later the Miners" Executive called on "the organled workers to refuse to manufacture or transport munitions of war for Ire land or Poland'.