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That a million miners should simultaneously lay down their tools and take holiday for an indefinite period in order to induce their employers to concede not merely the principle of the minimum wage, but the precise minimum which the men have fixed themselves, is a significant symptom of the progress that has been made of late years towards the realisation of Mazzini's ideal of association. It is the latest illustration of the tendency of mankind to organise itself according to its interests rather than according to geography. The new units organisation ignore frontiers. The miners of France and Germany are reported to have declared their intention to join the British miners if the strike continued. The aeroplane will probably expedite the process of reorganisation. The relative importance of the territorial State shrinks every day in comparison with the ever-increasing interests of that vast ganglion of international interests which constitute the community. Mankind is but dimly conscious of the transformation which is going on silently in our midst. It will probably be by the outbreak of an international war between two jarring international interests that the absurdity of the old frontiers will be made manifest. An international coal strike might advertise to the world the anachronism of the old war system of Europe. Daily Chronicle.] The Atlas of the Industrial World. than the Selandia brought in her bunkers. For she heralds (1) the dethronement of King Coal, the monarch upon whose throne rests British commercial and industrial prosperity; (2) the scrapping of the Dreadnoughts; and (3) the destruction of one of the greatest of our assets as rulers of the sea. Lord Fisher told me two years ago that in five years the whole of our mercantile marine would have to be rebuilt owing to the coming of the motor-steamer. What he said as to its effect on the Navy I will not repeat. But in the Selandia we have the first-fruits of the coming revolution. She was built in Copenhagen for the Far Eastern trade. Her speed is only twelve knots, and she only carries two eight-cylinder Diesel engines. But she is the pioneer of swift monsters which will rival the Lion in speed, and exceed it in endurance and in power. The Selandia can fill her bunkers with 900 tons of oil in a very few minutes, and then she is provided with motive power to drive her 20,000 miles without needing to replenish her store. If oil costs, let us say, 37s. 6d. per ton, this means that twenty penn worth of oil will drive a 5,000-ton steamer across a mile of salt water. Oil occupies only one-fourth of the bunkers needed for coal. No boilers are needed; three-fourths of the engine-room staff can be dispensed with; stokers will become extinct. The Diesel oil motor-engine will compel the conversion or rebuilding of all our steamers, and they will not burn coal. Its Industrial and Imperial Significance. It is a rather melancholy reflection that the moment when the collier has achieved a triumph without precedent, the industry by which he makes his living should have received definite notice of its coming doom. The concession of the minimum wage will hasten rather than retard the dethronement of coal. As it will tend to the elimination of the older, weaker and less competent miners, so it will tend to the closing down of mines which, in face of the competition of oil, can no longer be worked at a profit. It is as melancholy for Great Britain as it is for the colliers. For our long industrial supremacy has been based upon our possession of the best and cheapest coal in the world. America has long since displaced us, but we hold our own against all other nations. In oil, however, we are nowhere in the race. The United States and Russia possess inexhaustible stores of the new motive force of civilisation. We have only a limited supply in Scotland, and none, or next to none, in England, Ireland and Wales. Probably nothing would do so much to revive Ireland's prosperity as the striking of paying oil in the wilds of Connemara. From the point of view of Imperial defence the change from coal to oil hits Britain hard. We have hitherto been supreme on all the seven seas because we alone had coaling stations all round the world. Coaling stations may now be scrapped as useless. Ships can carry enough oil to take them round the world without calling anywhere en route. If they should run short, they can fill up from any tank steamer they meet in calm or in storm. Thus oil wipes out one of our great advantages. And what is worse, it will compel us to rebuild our navy. All our costly Dreadnoughts, which cost two millions each, will be scrapped before they have fired a shot. For it would be impossible to reconstruct them. COAL MERCHANT (to miner): "Look here, my friend, I'm against strikes, I am; but the more threats of 'em you can give me, the better it suits my book." me Its Bearing on the It is the certainty that the Diesel engine will put the Dreadnoughts Naval Competition. and the super-Dreadnoughts out of action that partially reconciles the weakening of our shipbuilding programme, for which various Liberal papers have been working with a zeal worthy of a better cause. Instead of maintaining without discussion or questioning the standard of two keels to one, they are eager to prove that we should be quite safe if the standard were reduced to three keels to two-signs of weakness noted with grim satisfaction in Germany, where the two keels to three standard is already being talked of as the normal relation between the two navies. This might be fatal-it is dangerous, in any case. But the certainty that all the capital ships upon which we are lavishing our millions will be out of date so soon renders it less mischievous than would other wise be the case. At present the Germans are ahead of us in the application of the motor-engine to ships of war. But we have great faith in our genius for naval construction, and in all probability some novel leviathan is being devised in British shipyards which will utilise the motor to such an extent as to effect as great a revolution as was wrought by the Dreadnought, which practically held up the battleship building of the world for eighteen months. It is unsafe to play tricks with the standard of two keels to one, but it will be some consolation, if Mr. Winston Churchill should monkey with that standard for steamdriven Dreadnoughts, that he will be all the more bound to lay it down as an axiom when he comes to build his new motor battleships. |