“THOSE SURPRISING ENGLISH?”
A year or more ago, dining the coal strike, some Americans came to England to study industrial conditions. They visited a coal owner, who said he could not show them the mines, but ho could, show them the miners. He took theny to a field, where the miners were holding athletic sports with the mine managers as stewards and judges. They were amazed (says the ‘ Times Literary Supplement’), and declared that no such scene could be witnessed during a strike in .America —feeling would ho too sharply divided. They were still more astonished when their host joined in a public and quite friendly debate with one of big miners whom he found speechifying against Capitalism. x
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Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 3
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119“THOSE SURPRISING ENGLISH?” Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 3
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