Of the demoralizing effect of these brutal and stupid methods on the moderate majority of the organized workers in this country it is dif-ticul, to speak. with moderation, Anti-Labour agitators and. news. Papers are fond of stressing the Fights of the so-called third party in the State—the "British public. Who this mysterious public' would be hard to say. The organiz-workers of the country repre: sented by the Trade Union Congress number 4,400,000. With their families they probably number 12- 000,000 of "the population. Judg-{ing from the anti-Labour press part of these can be included in the "public." They are the trade ts who are "up against the The public appears to be a few thousand clerks and small ghop-keepers, commercial travellers, Teaders of the "Daily Mail," and payers of income and super-tax.
The most curious feature of the present struggle to us is the feather-brained way in which the po- Te ians now in power risk the obvious dangers that will from setting one half of the at enmity with the other in test not far short of a civil war. There is to-day a rough division of the British people into camps. On one side there are th great mass of Britons who win living by the exercise of their manual skill and physical strong Of these it is commonly said that they are the most conscientious craftsmen in the world. On the other is the great majority of the non-wage-earning portion of the community. A study of the.edi-
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