NOT DOWN AND OUT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9

NOT DOWN AND OUT

ENGLAND QUITE SOUND

EFFECTS OF THE STRIKE,

Talking yesterday to a, "Post representative, Sir Boderick Jones, chairman of Eeutcr's, commented on the recuperative powers of England. He left on a tour just after the collapse of the great strike, and was thus enabled to judge its effects.

"The recuperativo power of England is marvellous," he said. "It is the ■wonder of the Continent, and also of the United States. England was fast recovering from the effects of the war when the general strike—the greatest in her history—came upon her. Tho immediate effect of the strike was good, but tho failure to settle, the coal strike has worn off some of the good effect. The general strike was a very goodnatured one, very well controlled, and. characterised by extraordinary restraint, both on the part of the authorities and of the Labour people. It created very good feeling right through tho country, and if it were only possible to settle the coal strike, there was no doubt about it that it would increase tne business activities of tho nation and its trade and enterprise enormously. I believe that' even now when tlio coal strike is settled, which is likely to be vety soon, tho general industrial condition of the United Kingdom and the gonoral labour conditions will be infinitely improved, and I think an added impetus will be given to business enterprise, which is simply being held in check at present. The financial credit of England is sound both on the English Exchange and on tho Continent.'^