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tain the facts as to profits, investments, overhead 
charges, remuneration for essential supervision and 
directorship, and aided by unlimited knowledge of 
the exact position, Arbitration now presents much 
safer ground for the workers than the strike weapon 
can afford. 
It would be useless to talk of compulsory arbi- 
tration, for neither employers nor employed would 
submit to it. But we might well talk of arbitra- 
tion as a condition to which workers would give 
a prior assent on terms that would secure the 
certainty of impartial decisions and a guarantee of 
advancement according to the revealed prosperity 
and capacity of any particular trade. 
Mr. Rose has now on his side all the lessons of 
our National Strike experience in Britain. He did 
not shape his opinions after the event, and for years 
before it his was one of only a few voices crying 
out against the notion that the strike on a large 
scale could be made the instrument for corres- 
ponding advantages to the earning classes. 
How deceptive have been the impressions that 
the workers could exhibit a united front, and give 
full effect to a vague and illusive doctrine about 
solidarity, we are now able to judge. We can only 
profit by the experience by turning to advantage 
the lessons which we may draw from an unprece- 
dented ordeal. If we do not learn these lessons, 
the losses of the National Strike will not be balanced 
by any gain whatever. 
Should any part of this book be read lightly, a 
closing chapter in the form of a letter to Mr.