UNDUE PRESSURE BROUGHT TO BEAR.
There can be no doubt now, wrote a Melbourne correspondent on the fifth day of the 'strike, but that a censurable number of the men who went on (strike did so undsr very great pressure from fellowexuployees, if not from a responsible otlicer of the Drivers' and Firemen's Association.
An engine-cleaner who is now out on strike said: —" Many of 11s were bounced into striking. I was not even a member of t'-ho Drivers' and Firemen's Association. I did not want to strike. I was practically called out. There were some 20 or 39 of ue who were not members of the Association, and I for one saw no very great reason for striking. However, I did not want to be one of those to hang" behind wixen the other fellows wanted my help, and I came out. I simply did not go to work on Saturday. lam convinced now that I made a mistake, and I ehall probably go to work to-morrow. There are a lot of other men wTao, I am cure, hold the same opinion as I do, but they are simply afraid of the taunts of other members of the Association if they go back to the Department."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11590, 22 May 1903, Page 5
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