By that time, workers found little hope in fi ghting back. In March 1920 the end of the economic boom sounded a death knell for the miners' political power. Indeed, as Cole recalls, priorities changed: "Trade Unions were more concerned with looking to their own defenses, industry by industry, in face of the threatened depression than with supporting the miners or any other section in essentially socialistic demands" (Cole 1958, 419).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 412