According to Vernon Hartshorn, a leader among Welsh miners who had given witness during the Sankey proceedings, the miners had unearthed a constitutional mechanism by which structural change could take place in Great Britain. Commenting on the proposals of the second report, Hartshorn wrote: “Th ey go to the very roots of the capitalist system. Th e recommendations comply with all the forms of constitutional procedure, though they foreshadow change which is truly revolutionary” (South Wales News, June 30, 1919, reprinted in Ives 2016, 208).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 407