NOT YET ENDED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 16 August 1911, Page 4

NOT YET ENDED.

it was stated in our cable messages on Monday that the strike in England had ended, and that a general resumption of work was expected; But side by side with the cheering information one has to read that further striking has occurred and that acts of violence on the part of the disaffected are numerous, requiring the reading of the Riot Act and the calling out of tho military. The situation grows more grave, and though Air Churchill may talk of the Government using all the means at its disposal to prevent London’s food supply from being cut off, even to tiie calling out of the military and tho arming of the police, men who have apparently been under the yoke of long hours and inadequate pay for so many years are not likely to surrender without tangible assurance that their future lot will be made more hern able. Strikes are but pool - means to an end, and almost without exception they cause the greatest suffering to the wives and families of those who adopt this method of attempting to secure what they consider to bo their rights, in addition to entailing great inconvenience and loss on the community as a whole. Nevertheless, the working classes in Britain, possibly taking their cue from the incomparably bfftor condition of tho workers of the overseas Dominions, brought to mind by

the recent visit of Labour Ministers from Australia, are asserting themselves, and it is difficult to blame them. It is but necessary to make oneself acquainted with the miserable pittance doled out to almost every branch of labour in the United Kingdom to realiso what must-be the feelings of these workers when their position is forcibly brought home to them by comparison with the rates of wages ruling in Australia and New Zealand.