ABSTRACT
On Friday, March 1st, the majority of the miners of Great Britain came out on strike. Indeed, the strike was of a magnitude that had never occurred in any single industry in any country of the world. If the Members of the House of Commons were content to leave the issues of the coal strike in the hands of the Government, it was not the attitude of the newspaper press. The South Wales miners had given way sooner than other large districts for the simple reason that their resources were so much less. In spite of all the preparations of the ruling classes for ‘war,’ in spite of the strenuous effort of the bourgeoisie to crush the resistance of the disobedient slaves of capital, the strike was a success. Strikes are assuming a mass character; moreover, they are ceasing to be purely economic and are turning into political strikes.
