THE WAGES WAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 24 August 1911, Page 4

THE WAGES WAR.

The question that suggests itself just now is as to what the next move \till he in England in connection with the labour movement. It is useless to say that all trouble is at an end, even with the railway men, but there are indications of outbreaks in other quarters that will be quite as disastrous—if not more so—as the recent industrial .upheaval. When the biscuit bakers have announced their intention of going out, then the oilier branches of the bakery trade may ho expected to soon follow, and there 13' no telling where another strike may, have an ending. Seeing that the railway men have scored a victory, the under-paid employees in all other directions will be incited to go and do likewise, and if such disaster followed the few days that the railway men were on strike, what will bo the result, of a general strike of trades throughout England? Nor is it to be supposed that tiie trouble will cease in the Old Country. The workman of France have been dissatisfied for a long time, and it only requires an example to be set by the people across the Channel to ho at once followed. The German workers are likewise ready to take a hand in any movement that will ensure better pay and shorter hours of labour. Altogether the industrial outlook in England and Europe is not too bright.