The Directors of the North-Eastern Railway seem to have beaten
their engine-drivers. The latter struck suddenly, nomi- nally for this or that cause, really, if we understand the Train, because they could not stand the insolence of their foreman, and
the Board proceeded to do without them. The Company's officers drove engines, applications -came in from outside, and in less than a week the line was again in working order. The men see that they are beaten, and accordingly ask the drivers on the Midland to strike on their behalf, but there seems £101)13 hesitation about this. The North-Eastern men have bad leaders clearly, for they have no case worth striking for. At least, if they have, they have not explained it. We have read carefully all the Train has to say for them, and it amounts only to a suspicion that the Directors and the Traffic Manager and the foreman were all impertinent on purpose to make the men strike, which is not likely. If they were, wise men would have baffled them by not striking.
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