The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1926. STRIKES CANNOT SUCCEED

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 957, 23 November 1926, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties' Gazette TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1926. STRIKES CANNOT SUCCEED

As an industrial bludgeon the strike weapon lias proved a dud’ over and over again. It cannot succeed in these enlightened days, because public opinion, is too well educated for Labour leaders to hoodwink the man in the street. Without a good case and until conciliation and arbitration have been utilised as means of settlement, no strike can prevail. Public opinion must be behind the striker for the latter to succeed. The latest case in point is that of the coal miners in the Old Country. They started out seven months ago to paralyse Great Britain with a general strike. The whole nation arose and’ backed the Government against the strikers, so that the general effort to throttle the. country failed within a week. After that the miners kept up a coal strike that lias lasted to this day. The . objective of the continued struggle was a national agreement. Cook the Communist and Ids die-hard colleagues have failed in attaining that objective, for to-dav it has had to be dropped arid in the several counties the unions are making "local agreements—a way ont that was urged and offered hv the Baldwin Cabinet’s Coni Strike Committee six months ago.