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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 53, 26 November 1920, Page 6

In tho course of an interview with n "New Zealand Herald" reporter in Auckland recently, Mr. Leo Myers, brother of tlic> Hon. A. M. Myers, M.P., who is at present here on a visit, stnted that in his opinion the industrial atmosphere in England was improving. This was largelydue to the firm attitude taken up by employers in regard to strikes. The employers generally had adopted the principle of refusing to treat with mm on strike. They were open to discuss all matters relating to wages and conditions of employment when the men were at work, and many strikes had been rendered abortive owing to the attitude taken up by the employers. The feeling was generally held in England, said Mr. Myers, that while the right to strike ought not to lie taken from employees it was a right that should not be exercised until every other possible means of settlement bad been attempted. The refusal of tho employers to discuss griovanws, Mill or supposed, till the men resumed work was held to 'ho in the interests not only of th" community at largo but of the men themselves and their i families,