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Rh loading and unloading was carried on successfully, and the strike in this quarter collapsed chiefly through its own inherent unreasonableness.

Although, as a matter of opinion, I am bound to say that, taking this great recent Colonial strike as a whole, I can hardly see in what direction the men could rationally expect to improve their position by striking, or what real grounds of complaint they possessed, yet, had their campaign been properly conducted, and had their leaders been other than interested agitators, they might have succeeded in making their own terms in the settlement,