NEWS OF THE WEEK.
rimiE challenge of the London strikers to the superior -I- interests of the public has caused an extremely threatening situation. When we write on Thursday, the tramway and omnibus strike seems likely to spread to the Tubes and Underground railways. That would mean something like a hold-up of London traffic. We trust that the Prime Minister will recognize unfalteringly that in a civilized community—certainly in a democratic community—the public, as the vast majority, must be considered first. Whatever our opinions may be of the economic rights and wrongs of a strike, it is not tolerable that a series of sympathetic strikes, frequently directed for all practical purposes by a single man—in the present case Mr. Bevin—should, in effect, place the public under a dictatorship.
