8 FEBRUARY 1873, Page 3

The Strike in South Wales continues, and the masters appear

-to believe it will last, Mr. Crawshay, the greatest among them, having brought up his pit horses to the surface, a change which for them must be like a recovery of sight to the blind. The miners say they can go on for months—which appears to be 'true—but the ironworkers who are stopped by them are suffer- ing terribly. The miners forget that most of the masters can wait for years, or for ever, on their accumulations, and that with the present price of coal there cannot be much temptation to be making iron rails. According to the Times, the place of the ' hewers can be taken by machinery, but as we have argued else- where, it is more than doubtful whether coal-owners desire any great increase of out-turn such as machinery would produce.