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(Baits to Si. atom does nor mama,* preclude subsequent reetso] bausirial iftwed. By Sir William Chance. (P. S. King. Is. not.) —In this valuable little pamphlet, published for the British Constitu- tion Association, Sir William Chance has collated and lemmatized the Reports of the eight sets of Commissioners who inquired last summer into the causes of what is called" industrial unrest." Apart from the South Wales coalfield, whore an old class antagonism has developed a revolutionary spirit among a minority of the miners, the industrial districts were found to be concerned mainly with economic grievances. The high prices of foodstuffs, and the general belief that the wholesale and retail traders were making nudge profits out of the war, were the chief temporary causes of discontent, together with the maladministration of the Military Service Acts and other war measures. Sir William Chance's fair and lucid summary of these Reports deserves the most attentive consideration.
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