COAL-OWNERS AND COLLIERS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BPECTATOR."1
have just seen Mr. Ludlow's letter in the Spectator of October 14th. Allow me to point out that he is quite mis- taken in supposing that the fact of some coal-owners having given way and opened their pits affords any ground for con- cluding that the demand for a reduction in wages was unjust. A coal-owner who chooses to desert his comrades reaps large profits for the time out of the high prices caused by the strike. I wish that, instead of depending upon the Times and Daily Chronicle, your correspondent could have heard all that Mr. Ellis, representing the masters, and Mr. Pickard, representing the men, could tell him. It would have been interesting to learn afterwards his judgment of the whole case.—I am, Sir,
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