Proposal of the International for an universal strike.
The defeat of the miners in South Wales offers, as I have already said, one more illustration of the inability of workmen to force a concession from employers possessed of abundant resources, when the state of trade is such, that a concession cannot be made, without involving the employer in direct pecuniary loss. We have evidence that this fact is becoming generally recognised. The inability of Trades Unions to control the rate of wages was frankly admitted by the members of the International Society in their last congress, when the working men were informed that hereafter, if they wished to secure any substantial advantages for labour, there must be a strike en masse of all the working men of every country in the world.