15 MAY 1926, Page 2

No consideration was given to the probable results of depriving

the simple citizen at the fist swoop of the amenities and amusements which he values most—his right to read the news in his daily paper, his ability to move about and see cricket matches or horse races, or to read about them. There would have been determination among the mass of the people in any case to thwart a policy of coercion by inconvenience or postponed starva- tion ; but the organizers of this strike gave that deter- mination a particular colour and zest. •