The pageant of road transport was no dull procession of old and new vehicles. It was one of the to negotiating on any terms which embrace longer hours.
At the same time it is quite certain that either the Miners will settle now or the trouble will have ended itself by Christmas. There are well over 300,000 men now working; they are producing 20 per cent, more coal than usual; and they are earning between £4-8 per week. There will, too be at least £300,000 of the men now unemployed who will never get back to. work at all; the Mines will not be able to carry more then 900,000 oct of the 1,200,000 since some collieries are of Fesuming while in others new methods have been introduced.
Moreover before the strike there were too many "passengers" in the Perhaps here I may add the ordinary trade unions are nearly all ruined for the time being. None have any funds left; one of the most powerful has mortgaged its home while another has borrowed shout a million from the banks.
They all want a settlement—and a settlement at once, It will in short be many years before Labour recovers from the disastrous effects of this dispute,
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