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There is an impression that the Government " got home"

in the Tram strike settlement by the shortest of short heads—and even so as much by luck as by skill. Certainly they struggled desperately to avoid the Tube and Railway strike that was threatened on the night of Friday, March 28th. Concessions were extracted from the various employers which Mr. Bevin agreed to submit to the tramway men. He would not accept them without his members' authority—partially perhaps because he wished to show that he was not the Machiavellian dictator, imagined in some quarters, who had organized the strike for his own ends against the wishes of his members. So the strike had to go on over the week-end, but at any rate the Tubes were left running.*

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