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Show SITUATION IN ENGLAND. Labor unrest continue? in Kngland. The executive body of railway men lias sent au ultimatum to the government rejecting a- standardization offer recently re-cently made and intimating that unless un-less a favorable reply is peeured by ' noon today the men will be ordered to ; cease "work. The demands of the executive ex-ecutive committee are declared univa-r.onable univa-r.onable by Minister Oedde?, who says that in order to meet them freight rates would have to be advanced 50 per cent. Vv'a'os were much higher in Knland than in Germany in the days prior to the outbreak of the war. bince that time there have been heavy iiK-roaes all along the line and burdens have been placed upon the British manufacturers manufac-turers which will render competition with tl.? Germans an utter impossibility impossi-bility under the new condition;. The German workman is better paid than formerly, but he i not going the limit in making' demands just now while there is so much labor agitation in other countries. coun-tries. Instead he is keeping quiet and preparing for the future, when the trade bars will be let down. Great Britaiu has been placed at a disadvantage disadvan-tage and unless some way to apiiase her working -classes can be found she will lose the prestige it took two hundreds hun-dreds years to build up. Premier Lloyd George and the coalition cabinet havo a difficult problem before them. |