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Maoriland Worker, Volume 10, Issue 447, 1 October 1919, Page 3

From the land of the Stars and Balconies news of the latest thing in strikes. The Yenkees are bound to be first in everything, and they claim that the twenty-five mail aeroplane pilots who struck on August last is the first air strike on earth, or, rather, in the skies! It seems that the trouble occurred through the arbitrary ruling of the Postal authorities, who ruled that flights had to he made regardless of weather conditions. Two airmen reused to fly on account of a fog. They held that they were imperilling their lives by ascending. When they were dismissed, their comrades refused to fly until ihey were reinstated. The airmen point out that in two weeks' flying (during bad weather) no fewer than 15 accidents occurred. Things were patched up a little later, when the pilots agreed to resume their flights pending an appeal to President Wilson, the result of which has not come to hand. * * * 4. Beautiful talk is by no means the most pressing wa>..t in Parliament.— Car Iyle.