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...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...
Next day this "lockout-strike" was rendered infinitely more serious by the decision of the British Trades Union Congress to call a sympathetic "general strike" at midnight on the first day of the following week...
...proud of him!" Continuing, he launched into an assurance that British industry is at last recovering from its long standing period of depression. ''The waters are falling and our spirits are rising . . . [but] I should have thought that those . . . whose one unfailing remedy is the strike or lockout . . . would have learned more from the Great War. . . . In home affairs the speeches of too many leaders smack of the sword and battle axe. . . . Differences there must be . . . but I have yet to be convinced that they are not capable of resolution by reason and without resort to force...
There are three critical dates ahead. The first is July 1, when the National Coal Commission makes its report on anthracite wages and prices. The report will indicate whether the present terms of work in the anthracite fields ought to be renewed or not. A serious strike or lockout hangs on the Commission's findings...
Employers of the building trades announced a new schedule of wages and hours to come into force on April 14. If the terms are not accepted a lockout may result, in which 500,000 workers will be affected...