THE STRIKES IN BRITAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 4

THE STRIKES IN BRITAIN.

Though it will come as a relief i.o learn that the strike is ended; which

•.’.as paralysing British trade within Great Britain, and placing the pa eat raetrnpnlis perilously near a food famine, it cannot be said tlurfc the outlook is at ail a cheering one. Our cablegrams to-day state that the situation at Liverpool is dangerous, and chat unreasonable demands arc being made. There is also the menace of •other strikes in the air, so that Air G. 11. Askwith, of the British Home Gffico, v.dm is reported to have settled live strikes within the week, is likely to leave ids hands full. When an ; inn vase of wages amounting to i wentsMivo per cent, is granted to strikers it indicates that something is radically wrong on one side or the other, and the prospect of such an advance is so tempting that it is likely to unbalance other industries hitherto contented and smooth-run-ning. There are dark clouds on the industrial horizon which may burst into a great and world-shaking storm at anv moment.