Wo summarize below the facts about the prevalent industrial unrest
so far as we know them when we write on Thursday. The mark of all these strikes is that they are unofficial. They have not been sanctioned by the Trade Union Executives, but are an upheaval from below incited by the younger and more hot-headed workers. Where there is any coherent or far-seeing purpose in them, they aim at the discrediting of all constitutional processes. They try to discredit the direction of the Trade Unions, Parliamentary government, and the whole industrial system which has governed the relations of Capital and Labour. But nothing is more certain than that the workers themselves will be the greatest sufferers if the industries of the nation do not quickly get to work again and produce enough to repair the devastation of war. You cannot have more if you do not produce mom. Man is either his own master or his own victim.
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