THE STRIKE METHOD.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1944, 30 December 1913, Page 4

THE STRIKE METHOD.

THE EPIDEMIC A CATCniXG ONE

Ditmig the bite strike .period one trade (that af milk vending) remained outside the field of avert operation,-hut, and the- incWwit epidefnio contagion of the underlying principle, the afterclap struck _ one such business yesterday, bridging it under tho shadow of the deadly Unas tree, ICftrfincss csricdinlly, and tmie-mnnajjement generally, form the essence of the contract in economical milk distribution. This fact and Ms non-Gonmli»e» led ifl a rnptu.ro betii'een a milk-master and one of his fiien. The depute was-one for a Cowt to deal with, awl tho employer was anxious to liaro it settled legally, but the man was seized of wliAt lie deemed s better plan. Be simply went among the nthor employees, avid induced them to lino wp on Sunday morning*-# baker's dozen—frith .the threat of a full strike If the mandate of the delinquent were not immediately neeeded to. The soqiiel Was that one milk stable, at 3 o'clock yesterday morning. commence?! its operations under police sUfveillanfle. The ittciflieni strike was one of tlie silliest of the ' present silly season, but it servos to show tho atmosphere that surrounds _ industfy. ■and impedes its normal activities trhen the strike fever is about.