The Ministers who represent the various nations of Europe
are holding daily meetings, and consulting as to the terms of peace; but until they arrive at some decision we must wait to know the fate of Greece.
The striking tailors have not gone back to work yet. Most of them have been brave enough to stay out and resist the temptation offered them by the masters to go back to work at the old terms.
A few, however, have been unable to bear the strain, and have gone back at any wages rather than be idle and in want.
It is these weaker people that the strikers always fear. The success of a strike depends on all having the courage to wait until their demands are granted.
When the tailors found that some of their number were at work they were very much enraged, and for the first time since the strike began became riotous and unruly.
They formed committees to go the rounds of the various factories, and see if any tailors were at work in them. Those who were found in the shops were threatened, and ordered to leave off work at once.
The contractors got angry in their turn when their men were called out, and many fights occurred, the police being kept busy arresting the strikers and protecting the contractors.
When the feeling had grown very bitter on both sides, a contractor appeared in the street where most of the tailors' shops are situated.