Many of the unionist miners in America, who have been
on strike since April, have resumed work on the old terms. But the strike of the men employed in railway workshops has not been settled, because the companies decline to restore all the strikers to their old positions and to dismiss all the men who were engaged in place of them when they rejected the Federal Labour Board's decision and ceased work without notice. The four brotherhoods of railwaymen have now taken up the case of the workshop employees. There have been cases, in the West, of drivers and firemen leaving passenger trains stranded in remote places, but no general strike has been even threatened as yet. The President has promised to protect the railways, whatever happens. Whether he can do more is uncertain. Meanwhile, the Eastern cities find that coal is growing scarce and dear, and they await the winter with anxiety.
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