The strikes of the agricultural labourers in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire
seem to be creating a sort of panic. Their plan is to strike by districts for 16s. a week, the men out of work being supported by those who receive wages, and has so alarmed the masters that they have formed a combination to put down such immoral combinations. Union men are dismissed summarily from their houses as well as their employment, but find they can go on tramp, and get work elsewhere at the rate they demand. The men show no symptoms of yielding, are appealing to the artisan Unions, and have organized a Warwickshire Labourers' Union, to hold its first meeting on Good Friday. We should not wonder in the least if this turned out a most serious and dangerous move- ment. The labourers are much poorer than the artisans, but they have a better case, more means of coercion, and more deter- mined natures. As things stand, the farmers cannot pay the money, and we may hear the tenure cry yet.
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