THE universal relief that followed the end of the general strike has caused it to be — to some extent — forgotten that the coal strike continues, and that until the mine controversy is settled it is idle to talk of the return of national prosperity. It would appear from their speeches that some of the more experienced leaders are now inclined to accept as a hard necessity a temporary reduction in the wages of the more highly paid workers. If it is clear that this need only be temporary, the concession would be politic, and it would be wise for men dependent on the industry to make a small sacrifice to assure continued employment and many contingent advantages at a not too distant future. . . One interesting feature of the strike was the wide popularity of the ’varsity and public school volunteers. Indeed, these young fellows made things go in a way that the undergraduates of the Victorian age would never have contrived. Think of the humour and high spirits with which they controlled the dense crowds on the Tube platforms. “Keep smiling!” “Nice seat for you in the next train!” “Jump in and hear the nightingale sing in the Hampstead Garden Suburb!” Everybody laughed and everybody had a good word for the joker. . . So long as we have young fellows of this sort, limited in vision perhaps, but prodigal in good nature, all attempts to stir up class war will be failures. No foreign country, America least of all, could supply in an emergency hundreds of smiling young men, brave enough to face stones and to laugh at the stone-throwers, and skilful enough to drive a motor omnibus along the Strand at mid-day without disaster.