Small Direct Cost to the Government: Less Than a Million Sterling Spent In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying to a question said that he anticipated the Government's net expenditure as a result of the strike had not exeeed-led £750,000, or may be less.
The direct expenditure of the, Government probably was not large, and there would be countervailing] receipts. Moreover, the strike had normal, ex: ice of flying and also at Woolwich Arsenal.
Labour demonstrations in London and the provinces yesterday were curiously subdued and the audiences in general were hostile to the speakers, who moved resolutions reaffirming confidence in the Treees Union Conference.
Mr. C. T. Cramp, the railwaymen's leader, speaking at Plymouth, said that the strike would probably cost the Union of Railwaymen nearly 1,000,000 and_the Railway "Cempanies about £5,500,000.
He added that he did not believe that a general industrial strike could ever be carried out effectively, because, if it were carried to its logical conclusion, they would starve and paralyse themselves as weill as everybody else, The railway unions, he went. on, had saved their lives by their action regarding an agreement, but possibly some unions and workers in. some industries would find it very difficult to return to pre-strike conditions.
The Miners' Federation has, an-)pealed "to all those, desiring Ju the mining industry to prove hale sincerity by helping the miners to
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