Everything goes like lightning in the States. Last week 'Chicago
and the West were almost in the throes of Revolution ; rand even Socialist Governors had to hunt high and low for rifles for the Militia. Now the Federal troops have left 'Chicago, and the strike is almost forgotten. Messrs. Debs, 'Howard, Keliher, and Rogers, the strike leaders arrested 'by the United States Court for contempt in violating the injunction against interfering with the railways, will be tried next Monday. The prisoners refused bail, perhaps wisely. When a strike has failed, the leaders are apt not to be very popular, and the prison cell in which Mr. Debs says he pre- fers "to rot," is not made uncomfortable for men awaiting trial. No one in prison can ask unpleasant questions as to why the strike was bungled from the beginning. Though 'the railwaymen are everywhere at work, the riots con- nected with a mining strike in the South at Birmingham, Alabama, continue. There the problem is complicated by the qucstion of colour. The Union miners have been replaced by non-Union negroes. On Monday a fierce fight took place between the strikers and the deputy-marshals, in which six men were killed and twenty wounded.
