PREVENTING STRIKES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 98, 29 August 1913, Page 4

PREVENTING STRIKES.

The "Christchurch Press" wonders whether there are people who roally do believe that legislation can entirely prevent strikes. If there be such they are advised to read the evidence of Mr Denis Guiken, member of the Sydney Labour Council, i before the Commission on Industrial Arbitration. Mr Guiken said there was no absolute preventive of strikes, the nearest ; approach of it, in his opinion, being preference to unionists. "If you made it a capital offence it would not provent strikes," he added. About the time Mr Guiken was giving his evidence, Labour men on the Barrier were illustrating it by showing their contempt for the machinery set up by Parliament to stop strikes. The Industrial Court in Sydney granted an injunction of restraint against the strikers, but the leaders did not take the slightest notice of ' it, save to laugh at it. There-is only one way to prevent strikes, and that is to make the people concerned realise what ;, wasteful method it is of settling dis putes. But until the working men goi the measure of the Labour "bosses" that will be a very difficult thing to do.