Excerpt from The Social Unrest: Its Cause and Solution Its cause and solutio N introduction IN the autumn OF 1910 there com menced a series of strikes which were so widespread and stirred the minds of the working Classes so deeply that people began to talk of a general labour unrest. Real terror crept into the hearts of large sec tions of the public and loud clamour for displays of police and military force was made; the deep gulf of Opposition between class and class was revealed in all its menace and repulsiveness; the antagonistic feel ing of the well-to-do classes was Openly displayed in the leading newspapers both by bitterly unfair com ment and by misleading news; on several occasions, particularly during the short railway strike, we were on the brink of civil war; the ordinary work of Parlia ment was suspended again and again for the purpose of considering the industrial strife that was raging outside; legislation embodying new principles was passed hastily. 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.