BRITISH LABOR SHOWS THE WAY

One of the most hopeful of the return toward pre-war "normalcy" is the collapse of the long-threatened British general strike. Organized labor, headed curiously enough by the miners, has now definitely repudiated the idea, to the great relief of the harrassed public. The reason seems to be not so much dissension in the ranks of Labor as a growing conviction that the ballot is after all the best means of gaining desired ends. The English mind is by nature and inheritance inclined to the use of constitutional means; English Parliamentary methods are well adapted for expressing the will of the people. Labor knows that a decisive victory at the polls will lead at once and without fuss to the coveted changes.

Consequently the rank and file of Labor, as well as the more sane of the leaders, have refused to be stampeded into the radical, "cooperative ownership" group which is associated with the international labor movement. They are willing to work peacefully. The problem of Capital and Labor may be a very long time in the settling; but at least such sobriety and good sense is excellent omen for the future.