WHAT STRIKES MEAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 February 1921, Page 7

WHAT STRIKES MEAN

V HOW THEY ARE CAUSED

. BY CABL^PRESS ASSOCIA.TION—COPYaiGBr (Received' Feb. 11, 11.50 a.m.) SYDNEYyFeb. 11, It is estimated that 30,000 workers «re idle, chiefly as a result of the ship--3>ing strike, and the resultant idling of the coal mines and other, dependent industries. On behalf of the employers it is claimed that the trouble is mainly traceable t£> single yoiihg men -in.-'the «oal mining industry and.on the waterfront geting too much money and get- / ting it too easily, and that the time had arrived when unions should officially disavow job control and "go-, slow" tactics. V v i i ~.-•:'

_ Union officials reply that the trouble is directly the outcome of the action of the employers in certain industries, who are seeking to create trouble with "the employees to. secure a trial of strength. They predict that the employers' methods will evolve a "Frankenstein," little thought of on both sides, x and they describe the position as very serious. [Frankenstein—The ; word has its •origin in the romance on this name written by Mrs Shelley. Frankenstein is a mortal who creates a being in. the formoorf r man by the aid of science, and is himself tormented by the mon•ster he created. The term has come to be incorrectly applied to any creature which proves -a cause of anxiety or disaster, to its author.]