Consequently, while the blow would fall hard' upon the inhabitants London, were it possible to hold up there supplies, it is apparent) the effects of the stoppage must be felt to the uttermost parts of the earth. Farmers in places having, no direct concern with the strike would lose a day's sales of wheat, because people would not in imes of industrial peace eat make up for what they did not have Jduring the days of the struggle, loss is total. Indeed the news that cherry growers in Pro-venue, the dairy producers of the northern portion of the continent, and Ireland have had produce! thrown back on their hands, not because they did not want to sell ft, but because the. strikers would, endeavour to prevent its being' handied on arrival in England.' Fortunately, this appears to. hav' been short enough lived, for the! hatest reports show that' foodstuffs fare again moving forward under government guarantee that ships arriving with food will be unloaded.
Looking at another aspect of the: losses incurred by the strike it in possible to show that the direct} lose to the strikers is somewhat in proportion. In 1921 the number of miners who were involved in the strike of that year has been given as 1,150,000, 'Taking their wages at the low' average of 50/- per week, the loss to them in wages would be somewhere about £2,800,- 000, but if we assume 8,000,000 men to be out of work asa result of the general strike, then the enormous figure of £7,500,000 would represent somewhere about the loss sustained by Inbour under the heading of wages alone, and, of course referring only to strikers, and. not to those who have been put out of work by the stoppage. The fact that strike pay is given does not materially affect the calculation, for it only means a transfer of a portion of the loss from the pockets of the strikers to the funds of the unions,
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