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THE STRIKE MANIA

.Sir,—ls it not time that the Government woke up nnd took effoctivo measures to deal with this nuisance? That some of the leaders have been sent to prison is satisfactory to a certain extent, but this is not sufficient to stamp out n deep, rooted and growing evil. Nothing short of a special statute dealing with this ever-present trouble will afford the much, needed relief. Tin; writer has- long been under the impression (hat any combination whose activities result 'in the 10straint of trade is illegal, but if no specific enactment exists for the purpose df controlling this kind of tiring, then flic sooner sueli action is taken tlio better for the general public. I do not for one moment doubt the right of any body to so organise as to improve, their future position, but what I do doubt is the right In injure others. This latter srenia (.) be. the unionists' only way of making their power felt, nnd individually ami collectively to become obnoxious, dring

themselves no good but: scores of unoffending persons real harm. In the writer's opinion a law should at once bo passed giving the Court iy.:v.cr to cancel (he registration of any urion which is found guilty of violation of an nnnrd —tin's (.ierimiu "scrap of paper" business should not be endured for a single day. The refusal to submit tr, u Court of competent jurisdiction any natter in dispute should bo held to "bo en offence against the 'law and punishable accordingly. Tim holding up o f the mosquito fleet by reason of the owners only requiring one man on the watch besides an cllicer is merely au excuse, and u very flimsy one, for (he action of the union, previously with one man he would feel thu full responsibility of his position, and act accordingly. With two men, is it not quite possible that each would bo relying upon the other, a divided responsibility, and perhaps Irotli dose oft to sleep or otherwise neglect their duly. A rather remarkable feature is that noone seems so far to have been able to dire-cfly trace and prove any reallv great disaster arising from lack of two lookout men. It is quite clear that .iiue'n injury is being caused by tiie present ac- I tion of the unionists.

Besides a .long term ot imprisonment i'o.' the leaders, there should follow not only cancellation of the union, but each [ members who support its actions should be disfranchised for at le.-wt seven, vears, for men who combine to do iircparable injury to. the State are not fitted to exercise any control in the affairs of the State, seeing that they cannot prope.-ly control their own actions. A sympathetic strike should bo more firmly dealt wi'hj each and every participator should receive i'nli punishment for such ;i national offence. It is bad enough to have a strike wlien parties are immediately interested, o>r supposed to be, but it is altogether unpardonable to induce others to join in order to create loss end disaster on a wholesale scale.—T urn, etc. OBSJiIiVEK.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 6

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THE STRIKE MANIA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 6

THE STRIKE MANIA Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 28, 27 October 1917, Page 6

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