June 9
Written on the eve of victory for the Government and the people, our London correspondent's account of the defeat of the strikers naturally' resounds jubilant, and in some places a triumphant note, which, in subediting, we have considerably! modified. The strike is over. The workers have been defeated and there is little likelihood of such a struggle ever being repeated. As loyal citizens of the Empire we have every reason to feel satisfaction, Inasmuch as the safety of the Constitution and the Crown has been definitely sured, we are. But our delight tempered with a feeling of ness and sympathy for that vast body of the British people who have now to suffer. Misled by their leaders of to-day, the victims of unfulfilled promises during and immediately after the war, one cannot but believe that many of them entered into this strike as a last desperate resort to bring about the millennium they were promised. Others were merely the helpless cogs in a machine wholly beyond their own control. We think that our La-hour correspondent, whose letter we print to-day, is misled by his
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