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there are many other constantly operative causes of unrest. 

 In this article we will confine ourselves to a very brief 

 description of one of these causes. 



" During the last two years there has been a recru- 

 descence of Syndicalism. This lias been most noticeable 

 among the skilled workers in the metal, engineering, and 

 shipbuilding trades. The principal leaders of this move- 

 ment reside in London, Glasgow, Sheffield, Barrow, 

 Coventry, and Manchester. At other centres like Liver- 

 pool, Newcastle, Darlington, and Southampton the new 

 ferment is not yet so active. 



" The object of this movement is the complete control 

 of the engineering and shipbuilding industry by the 

 workers therein employed. It should be mentioned that 

 in this Syndicalist organization there is no recognition of 

 any distinction between the skilled and unskilled workers 

 in the industry. All workers in the engineering trades 

 are to be enrolled in one union — an Industrial Union 

 similar to the one union scheme of the American 

 LW.W.,"' " irrespective of craft, grade or sex." 



"These Syndicalist leaders of the rank and file move- 

 ment fully endorse the extreme methods and demands of 

 the Russian Bolshevists, and of late they have been most 

 active within and without the workshops of the principal 

 munition centres of this country. During the last two 

 years they have been the cause of many strikes, and they 

 were entirely responsible for the Engineers' strike last 

 May." 



On the other hand, those in this country will be very 

 wrong if they continue to look askance at the Russian 

 soldiers and peasantry, and to lose all faith in Russia as a 

 nation because of its fits of frenzy and the outrages com- 

 mitted by the Russian mobs on educated and well-to-do 

 people, especially upon anyone holding an official position 

 or owning manorial rights and lands in the country. Those 

 among us who are inclined to do so would be well advised 

 to closely follow the history and sufferings of these people, 

 before throwing down the sponge and crying out that 

 " Russia is lost to us. Russia is far worse than no good 

 to us, for her German landholders are hand-in-glove with 

 Prussia. They come from a common stock, and have the 

 same brutal instincts of making everyone else slave and 

 suffer in order to serve and satisfy their insatiable appetites 

 for the grosser things of life, money, power, arrogance, 



* Krown to most of us as the *' Incorrigible Won't-works." — En.. T.L. 



