THE STRIKES IN BRITAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 46, 9 October 1911, Page 4

THE STRIKES IN BRITAIN.

The people who had to suffer most severely in London through the recent strikes which so seriously disorganised railway travelling’and goods transit, were, a correspondent considers, the workmen and work girls—all who start early in the morning and are paid by the hour. On many lines the workmen’s trains were suspended, so that they had either to start their day much earlier in the morning or to pay ordinary fares. Of course a vast number took to the slower tramways, but the service was not able to meet the, additional traffic, , and many after seeing crowded cars pass on had to truclgo in the ond. Those- who wore going on holiday found all the excursion bookings suspended, and it was in the small trader’s shop in the work-ing-class district where prices were most quickly advanced. Yet it was wonderful to hear so few complaints from those who felt the pinch most. A passenger in a train that was badly stoned tells that a "poorly dressed workman and his wife in the same carriage stood up for their assailants when the rest of the compartment, were with very natural vehemence saying what they thought of the strikers and their tactics.