PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14842, 6 December 1913, Page 12

PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS.

TO THE EDITOBO?>"TBB PHEBB."

Sir, —Wherever one goes, /whenever conversation is entered into, the topic is ''the strike." Of course, we live under British protection, and we all enjoy the liberties of, the.British .subject to express our views upon any question, that is before the public. Men differ in their opinions. Wβ do not;all see from the same viewpoint. The plain-; tiff before • the S.M. makes his . case clear from his point of but when the defendant.states his defence from his point of view it generally pats a different complexion oh the question at issue. My experience. in our courts of and ■ justice is that we gei too ■ much.law:and it beclouds jiistico v With. all due respect to "my learned friends" the lawyers, I am of opinion that niore justice would be meted out to clients if the lawyers wore excluded from our courts. That, of course, is my opinion. What.has this to do with the strike? asks the render. Just this—the strikers are the plaintiffs and the employers nre the defendants now before the wublie court of opinion. Have we sufficient evidence before us to give .our decision? I think so. Of course, we have "the lawyer"— n larpe nnmbor of tht>vn —on the plaintiffs , side—Semple and Hk-key, and Young and Frasgr-cum-Holland-cum-Mills, with a host of honourable members, who add M.P. at the end of their names-r-eyen the would-be leader of the Opposition, the hon. member for Avon, nnd even Sir Joseph Wai'd himself, . with thoir vast stores of leeal knowledge*, which.they so pxaciously bostow upon the nublic. but which only tends-to becloud justice. The facts of tTiis .wrotrihfld fre before th« public, and the plaintiffs' case, and that of the defendants' have Been clearly stated and public opinion is with the defendants. * I have hewrt strikers acthat the strikers in Wellinjrt'on did wrong, but, 'Hike dumb-driven cattl*."'they had to obey the behests of the powers that be. — Yours, etc., FRO HOXO PUBLICO. Hornby, December 4th. l -