Miners’ leaders and economic experts jointly condemned free-market capitalism

Evidence

In their negotiations with the British government, the three miners’ representatives, together with the three economic experts, all agreed on a basic point: freemarket capitalism had to be denounced and overcome. Smillie and Hodges openly addressed it as “the old regime” (Arnot 1919, Preface). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 393