THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Ann the Workers Helping -TheaYSEI.VES P The. most pungent question the workers can ask themselves is, are they doing themselves any good? Or, rather, are they not simply inflicting upon themselves, to the paralysis of industry, needless suffering and loss? Coercion never yet solved the difficulty. The pistol at tlie head of the employer does not make for the understanding which must be reached if industry is to continue. Such a claim as is made in the right to strike, or, as it has been called fallaciously “the right to demonstrate the value of labour hv withholding it,” is contrary to all our standards of right and justice.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1922, Page 2
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112THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1922, Page 2
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