STRIKES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16856, 9 June 1920, Page 7

STRIKES.

TO TITE EDITOR OV "THE PRISS." Sir, —War on tho public by coal miners, tramwaymen. and others of tho j great army of po-cnllod "workers" has I>een a one-sided game hitherto. Tho following cutting from the "Morning Post" of March 4th. shows that the long-snfrerins? public is at last waking up and realising that two can play at the came of striking. When tho public of this Dominion chooses to use its • power we shall hear no more of such I preposterous strikes as that of the ! Auckland tramwaymen because a parcel j "f jockeys don't get all they want. — Yours, etc.. ONE OF THE PUBLIC. The cutting enclosed by our corre- j spondent is the following messago <o i the "Post" from its Paris corrcspon-j ; dent:— j j The railway strike has now passed j j into history, but apart from the broad- | er interests involved there has • been j 0110 strikingly interesting development ; that may have n considerable effect on | industrial unrest. Throughout tho provinces grave in- | convenience was caused ta the public,

and instead of leaving the matter for settlement between tiio railway men and the Government, individual members of the public took personal action, and reports from the provinces show that in the smaller districts whero tho railwaymen -were personally known, local shopkeepers refused to servo them with food and other necessaries. In tho department of tho Landes tho joined in the movement apainsb tho strikers. Being deprived of petrol owing to tho strike they ptibliclv declared that they would reserve ail tlia stocks of petrol they lind for their patients, and would not treat any railwayman except in eases of V gravt> urgency.