[TO THE EDITOII OF THE "SPECTATOR. "'
Stn,—In your article on strikes last week you say, " The working man is almost exclusively concerned with thoughts of his wages," and you conclude, "Discontent is almost divine if it leads men to desire more than they desired before, and to raise the standard of comfort. The standard of comfort cannot be raised without more light and beauty coming into a man's life." Is it not clear that in our time strikes are more a question of manhood than of wage P Has net this light and beauty already come into the life of the worker (thanks primarily to the better education afforded by the employment of trained teachers in our elementary schools for the last twenty years), so that the souls of nearly 100,000 railway workers who earn less than £1 a week cry out under the soul-killing effect of such a wage on a man's life? And is not this the great lesson of the social upheaval of this twentieth century that has only but begun P—I am, Sir, &e., WORKER.
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