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Show BRITISH PUBLIC SUFFERS CONDITIONS REFLECT LABOR REVOLT RE-VOLT IS SETTLED ONLY IN THEORY Unions Stay Out For Many Reasons; Split Feared Between Trade Congress and Miners At Next Meeting London. The trades union congress made a fatal mistake in calling off the general strike," Secretary A. J. Cook of the miners' federation told Associated Associa-ted Press. "We knew nothing about their reasons. There was no weakening weaken-ing of the men. We have seen hundreds hun-dreds of telegrams Jrom all parts of the country to the effect that the men refuse to resume work." London. An official of the railway men's union asserted that in view of the difficulties surrounding the reinstatement reinstate-ment of strikers, the executives ol three of the railway unions have called call-ed upon all railway men to continue the strike until they received satisfactory satisfac-tory assurances from their employers London. Great Britain's general strike theoretically is over, but practically prac-tically is still continuing to function more or less as it has for the last nine days. Throughout the country there is a disposition thus far on the port of many unions to stand out. There are various reasons for this.' Among them are the men's desire m some instances instan-ces to take advantage of the strike to exact better terms of employment; sympathy with the miners who are still on strike; refusal of some employers em-ployers to discharge volunteer workers work-ers to make room for the old employes and the edict issued by other employers employ-ers that they will not take back the workers until they have torn up their union cards. This situation is possible possi-ble because the trades union congress, in calling off the general strike, issued is-sued orders that the men were not to return to work pending instructions from their individual unions. Comments were heard that it was far easier to start a general strike than to halt one. There'was some improvement im-provement in conditions Thursday, I traffic accommodations being a little better, but the citizen who retired on Wednesday night with the thought that his troubles were ended was amazed upon awakening to find he still had to walk to work and endure other inconveniences. |