ABSTRACT
The greatest struggle between Capital and Labour that this generation of Englishmen has seen has ended in the victory of the weaker side. A strike, the last desperate expedient of Labour at bay, must surely fail when every slum in England would pour out a score of unemployed men willing to tramp to London to take "unskilled" work, if it was going a-begging at 4d. Lastly, the London working man, and more especially the riverside labourer, has had enough experience of the sinister motives of some stump orators to make him think twice and thrice before he accepts would-be leaders at their own valuation. Finally at a meeting of the whole of the Dock Strike Committee, at which Cardinal Manning was present and exerted all his influence and eloquence on the side of peace, the author moved the resolution the acceptance of which by those present concluded the Great Dock Strike of 1889.
