PEACEFUL PICKETING.
Great Britain lias learned the danger of leaving trades unions, as organisations quite irresponsible to the community for any of their actions. By the Trades Disputes Act of 1900, union funds were made immune against tlie law, and "peaceful picketing" was-leg-alised. Now the great transport strike has shown the meaning of these bene-volently-granted privileges. A strike of any kind can be engineered without any fear of penalty; and "peaceful picketing" degenerates into assault, arson, pillage and disorder so wild that only military force can quell it. It is not surprising that the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, reflecting much other opinion throughout Great Pntain, is urging the repeal of laws which give trades unionists, as such, a legal position different from that of ordinary citizens. —Melbourne "Argus."
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 29, 22 September 1911, Page 18
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128PEACEFUL PICKETING. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 29, 22 September 1911, Page 18
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