Strikes and threatened strikes are reported daily. The adoption by
agreement between the engineering employers and ['rade Unions of a forty-seven-hours week has given rise to many local disputes, especially in London, largely, it seems, because the workmen do not rare to change their daily habits. On the Clyde the Socialists who were defeated at the General Election have promoted an agitation for a forty.houre week, which is advocated on the ground that there will not be work enough for demobilized men if the normal hours are maintained. The Yorkshire miners are striking as the result of a dispute with the ,oalowners about stoppages for meals and overtime pay. Tho London railway workers have threatened to strike if the eight- hours day promised them is delayed. The general features of these labour troubles are impatience and lack of discipline.
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