Excerpt from The Review of Reviews for Australasia: April, 1910 Happily the Newcastle coal strike The Newcastle is at an end. Issues have trembled Strike. In the balance for days at a time, for it seemed impossible for'the opposing parties to come to the final point of agree ment. The hopes of the public swayed to and fro like leaves in a breezel One by one, however, the walls of division were broken down until the last one crumbled away. It was constituted because of the unwillingness of the proprietors to take back certain, men. But they conceded the point at last. Now this is settled, it is to. Be hoped the last has been heard of strikes for some time to come. This one has been a bitter experience for the workers. For eighteen weeks it was in progress. And what a wreck it has produced.' The leaders are in gaol, _the men have lost hundreds of thousands of pounds in wages, business has been dislocated and the men's cause has been discredited. Now they are going to do what would have happened before had they not struck, that is, -settle their dis putes before a properly constituted tribunal. Work began on March 14, and an idea of the shortage of coal may be gathered from the fact that in Newcastle port there were then 90 deep-sea vessels waiting for coal, while many others were expected to arrive shortly. It is computed that the miners have lost about in wages, while the loss in other directions will probably bring the total up to about a million. One reliable estimate of the loss of coal sales alone places it at about The general result, so far as the miners are con cerned, is a deplorable one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.