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With such a statement by the President of the N.U.R.

staring us in the face we should be simply misleading the public if we were to talk as if the strike were a pardonable dispute over wages involving no breach of contract, such as we fully admit the Unions have a right to order if they are convinced that their members are not getting as much money as they ought to have and as the economic conditions allow. The strike was due to a conspiracy to throw the country into a state of confusion approaching anarchy out of which it was hoped that tho first

step in revolution might become possible. That is the long and the short of it.