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THE July issue of the Quarterly Review contains an article upon the recent coal dispute by Dr. Arthur Shadwell, to which he has given the somewhat unfortunate title “The War of the Mines.” Dr. Shadwell points out at the beginning that this dispute was really not a war, and that there was in reality no need at all for a difference, which might have been arranged by mutual concessions, to have degenerated into industrial strife. He recognises that this was not a case of the men striking against any arbitrary action of the employers, but was rather an expression of their irritation at the inevitable development of the economic situation, and he states clearly and definitely the only remedy: “There is only one way out-the way of work. Other nations in a-similar position have taken it; they are at work, and working hard. Here less work is being done-than ever before.”
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LOUIS, H. The Coal-mining Industry. Nature 107, 763–764 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107763a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107763a0