Bolshevist Secretary of the Miners'
eration is planning a huge in-rial upheaval this summer. No doubt the miners are badly paid in places, but frankly the cause largely is that the output per day per man is very greatly restricted by the shortness of hours worked.
Moreover, people overlook the fact that the world demand for coal is not as big as it ured to be, since it is being very extensively supersede 1 by electrical power. No progress has been male with the railway men's claims and small spasmodic strikes are quite common, This week we have a strike of the lower-grade Governmient warkers in White: lectrieal Trade Union has politician of very high type, and the conipliment paid him well deserved. I think it rather unkind,
have announced almost simultaneiously that it has discovered in 'Wapping a working stone mason, Mr. Harold de Vere, who claims: that he is entitled to' be known the 26th Earl of Oxford. He is, though, not putting in for the title, because he has no money, and hence there ill be no trouble on this score.
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