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 diate recourse to emigration which followed, proves how 

 precarious employment is in this country, and how diffi- 

 cult it is to get fresh work. 



Here is what The Daily Mail said on the subject of the 

 Hamburg strike, on April 13, 1907 : 



" Whatever may be the ultimate result, the struggle 

 incidentally will have the effect of enabling some 3,000 

 English professors of the theoretical cheap loaf to earn 

 their daily bread for a few days longer. I am becoming 

 accustomed to the spectacle of the English Arheit- 

 willige (glad of a job) gladly picking up the scattered 

 crumbs of Germany's industrial prosperity, but still it 

 seems to me a strange plight for Englishmen to be re- 

 duced to. . . . The men were working willingly. They had, 

 for once in a way, a job which English industrial condi- 

 tions failed to provide, and one could only feel glad to 

 see them still cheerfully employed. But quite half the 

 crates and packing-cases of German manufactured 

 goods they were cheerfully loading for transport over 

 sea bore in stencilled black letters the familiar legend, 

 * Made in Germany,' which indicated that they were 

 destined either for England or for English Colonies. 

 Displaced English labour reduced to getting a living by 

 helping to displace English manufactures.'' 



What a depth of bitter humiliation and cruel irony 

 there is for the English people in that last sentence. 

 Displaced English labour reduced to getting a living by 

 helping to displace English manufactures, and, alas, it is 

 true. Not only is it true, but if Germany, or other coun- 

 tries which have built up a soHd wall of hostile tariffs 



