31 AUGUST 1872, Page 3

The Builders' Strike has ended in a compromise. The men

do not get their "nine hours and ninepence," but they do get a stint of 524 hours a week, which is better than nine hours, and 84d. an hour, a halfpenny more than they had before. The expenses of the strike will, of course, consume the halfpenny over and over again. The special features of the strike have been the absence of violence as against the non-Unionists, and the entire want of sympathy between the masons and the carpenters. The "brother- hood of labour" does not seem to have had the slightest influence with the Masons, who made their own bargain for their own con- venience in their own way, and are loudly accused of treachery. In fact, the corporations have begun to display as much indivi- dualism as individuals used to do.