AGAINST THE STRIKE.
The decision of the Denniston coal-' miners, by a large majority, not to ' go on strike is an agreeable change from the policy which formerly prevailed in these matters. The Westport Coal Company have refused an impromptu demand to increase the rates of pay to the employees, but it does not follow that, under other conditions, if they were approached properly, they would refuse to consider the question of pay and working conditions in a constitutional manner. The lesson taught by the Australian coal strike was a bitter but valuable one, and, if thirteen thousand men were beaten* hopelessly, how could a mere handul of miners on the Coast hope to force their employers into submission, especially in defiance, of the law on the subject. A satisfactory phase of the present trouble is that the former eagerness of employees to listen to "excited harangues and bad advice" is not now so pronounced. Which really means that the innocent wives and children upon whom the hardship of a strike really falls, are now more considered than the agitators.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10036, 9 July 1910, Page 4
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180AGAINST THE STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10036, 9 July 1910, Page 4
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