THE "GO-SLOW" STRIKE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3162, 14 August 1917, Page 4

THE "GO-SLOW" STRIKE

• "DELIBERATE ACT OF DISHONESTY." In the > T ew South Wales Industrial Court Jtr. Justice Heydon imposed penalties of £i and costs upon each of a lswe number of men who were prosecuted for havim* taken part in a strike at the Australian Glass Bottlo Works, Waterloo in April. Ifr. llqcatta, who appealed for llio defendants, stated that workwas now going on satisfactorily. A board of employers' and employees' representatives had been formed, to which future disputes were to 'its referred, and the men had pledged themselves to respect its decisions. In delivering judgment, -Mr. Justice TTevdon said that he had been anxioue concerning the matter on account of the heavy losses ciuhnl by the strike. Hβ was '"liid to lmnr from the secretary nf the union llmt Hie moil had absolutely refused to toiler upou'u "go-slow Etrike" 'vlii'ii nskiil lo do so. "Unfortunately it lm« lipeil shown that go-slow strikes not onlv take place, but are actually ordered." added Mr- Justice Heydon. "It lias also been shown, I am glad to say, that really honest men can rise superior to the wretched sophistry that is used to notify "ueli tactics. Grave as an ordinary strike is, T consider that deliberate net" of dUhonesty eucii as jjn-slnw strikes arc eminently more serious." The fines were ordered to bo paid at Ills, pur wook, chargeable upon the men ,^