Editorials.

The article comments on various political developments all round the world. A fight to a finish between the economic and the political power of Great Britain has again been narrowly averted by the national genius for accommodation. Fragmentary and obviously biased press reports of the ten-day railway strike that ended on October 6, 1919 give singularly little information concerning the exact demands' of the men, though the standardization of wages at war levels was involved. The rank and file of the workers apparently forced the hand of their leaders, who seem to have been inclined throughout to moderate action.