The details of the week of the dispute will be stale news by the time this reaches Shanghai and it sary to recount them, but the true tale is not that told in the contemporary press, There is for instance all the difference in the world between the showing the trains made in the press and that which they made on the rails. Nothing did so much during the strike to keep the railwaymen cheerful ind loyal to their union as the of the volunteces with State will be sufficiently powerful to meet the menace. But during a war, or with a war imminent, its effect might be very different. can now be seen that the Government of the time had a fa idea of the menace when the threat of it wax enough to stop the Rus sian adventure in 1919, There h now been revealed to the common the trains they attempted At King's Cross at the cement of the strike a couple of earnest. soring: me eel to Howe out the cylinder heads of one of the finest locomotives on the Tine after fumbling about with for a few minutes. In Manchester tio loyal help tole thr 10 mile journey, working man some iden of the vast extent of his latent powers when organized. finlically' getting the track the train caught them The speaker at at Labour mass meeting we led yesterday: stressed for his hearers the fuet of how little the strike had cost them. "You lost," he said, "about, one week's wage. The ten days off you spent in the fresh air at th bes, time of the year. You cost your enemies £100,000,000, an most servers shaking. up have had since the war. You tore up every agreement.
You un masked your false fr nds and dis comfited your enemies. And at the finish of it all your opponents are afraid of you that You are going back to work on your own terms. With a General Strike of the same kind every six months you could bankrupt the country and force a measure of Socialism on the Govern.
Other drivers in the same area stopped thir trains before coming 10 spots where missiles were anticipated and walked up the Tine to see that all was clear before fetching the train along.—Thivtysix and a half hours was a fair time for a journey from London to Edinburgh. And it was a common joke among the idle railway. amer: thst the total d sures of trains run was get by counting Detween two stations a site journey by a separate train, fy is now said that if titre should be nother railway strike the componies will shut down the service vail it is over as the damage done rolling stock far exceeds any, profits that can be made by a
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