Trade unionists appreciate a demand for higher wages more keenly than employers: the wealthy rentier reads of a strike in the cotton trade as a newspaper incident, of a railway dispute, whatever its grounds, as a threat to the community.
Laski illustrates the differing perceptions of economic issues between workers and employers.
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Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
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