STRIKE LESSONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 December 1913, Page 4

STRIKE LESSONS.

A writer to the Auckland "Star" says uiat the strike must have demonstrated to tens of thousands of people that they can live \in comfort and health without travelling to and fro on coastal or inter-colonial steamers. The shopkeepers have learned they can exist even though doing £20,000 less business in a week. The general public have been disabused of the idea that waterside work is especially dangerous and poorly paid. If some folks have had to go on one meal a day, they have probably gained health by the experience. TJie general conclusion 'seems to be that we have all been about 50 per cent, too well off, aiid did't knowit; that wo would all, be the better of eating only one meal a day, and walking to and from our work, and that in the interests of industrial peace it would be well if we felt the pinch of things a little oftener. The real cause of-the late strike was tco much prosperity. "When .Tosheron waxed fat,, then he kicked." The obvious conclusion is that if we do not, as a • community, lay these lessons to heart, we shall drift into civil war by sheer force of too-well-off-ness!