The other ay I made it my busi. nef to mi ith the crowd apd collect opinions om the strike. Sympathy with the miners is strong, but the opinion is growing steadily! that the strike i to them. An idea which was prevalent that a reduction in the miners' wages would mean a reduction all round is losing its hold. As a worker told me this afternoon: "We are beginning to see that' the only! chance for the future of the mines an increase in tra Jeannot be secured by industry of the country to a stard-still'
"Frankly, sir," he went on, "if! we could get rid of the feeling' that we will be called blgcklegs, lots of jus would be back to-morrow.
"Is it really @ case of a mass fear of the T.U.C.1" T asked, "That about sums it up; but it won't be long before a number us take our courage in our hands.
In a mining arca near Edinburgh 1 found thing§ quiet and the miners depressed. Some expressed themselves as certain that they. would be the prorer as a result of all this trouble, Others, on the other hand, maintained that loyalty to the Union Jeamo before everything.
Before the country?"
T queried, T got no response, Things Seen and Heard "Do you want a lift?" Seottigh motorists have in the main been very! thoughtful. 1 know one Portobello motorist. who loads his car to excess every day. On a recent occasion: he had no fewer than six Hassengers fon the back seat and one in troat. He tellg of one particularly pi incident. He stopped his car, al well filled, at Piershill, in order to accommodate a young woman who towards the city. She] asked him instead "he would take diet, crippled in the war, wishing his car had been a charabanc, complied and drove off, a phrase re-impressing
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