11 OCTOBER 1919, page 1

On Saturday Last The Morning Papers Contained Much...

the strikers' leaders and hints from other quarters that tho strike would spread. But the situation was much better than it looked. There were divided counsels in the strikers'......

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letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his beet to return contributions in case of rejection.......

One Word More. We Are Glad To Admit That, In

spite of the wild talk of some of the extremist writers and papers, the strikers showed good temper, and refrained, except in one or two cases, from any criminal acts. The......

With Such A Statement By The President Of The N.u.r.

staring us in the face we should be simply misleading the public if we were to talk as if the strike were a pardonable dispute over wages involving no breach of contract, such......

The Great Bulk Of The Members Of The Railway Unions,

as indeed of all the Unions in the country, are not revolutionaries, and would regard any such policy with hatred, ridicule, and con- tempt. Therefore an opportunity had to be......

Mr. Lloyd George Again Proposed A Truce. The Railwaymen Were

to return to work for at least a week, so that the questions at issue might be debated calmly or referred to an arbitrator. If aftes five days the railwaymen's leaders felt......

The Trade Unions Directly Affected By The Railwaymen's...

their efforts at mediation on Wednesday week, but after two days of negotiating they seemed to have failed. The Government insisted that the men should return to work before......

News Of The Week.

W E describe below the course of the strike. Here we must. say a word of protest, however discordant or unpalatable it may seem It the moment, against the pleasant and easygoing......

To Say That The Men Were Not Striking About Wages

but were engaged in what in fact was revolutionary action is no hostile assertion of ours or of anybody else's. It is no attempted inter- pretation of obscure facts. We take......