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The bedrock meaning of it is that when all the

superficial causes of the cancellation have been examined and allowed for, the great majority of workers were opposed to the policy of settling industrial disputes by revolutionary action. Naturally, the abrupt and unexpected calling off of the strike caused a convulsion in the Labour world. A solid and amused satisfaction is the feeling of the majority, but the extremists could not be expected to take such a por- tentous event lying down. On Friday, April 15th, the Daily Herald had written : . " To waver is to lose . . . stand firm and stand together." The next day it had to write : "Yesterday was the heaviest defeat that has befallen the Labour movement within the memory of man. It is no use trying to minimize it."

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