LOST ITS TERRORS.
GENERAL STRIKE WEAPON. " WILL NEVER BE REPEATED." Sun. LONDON, May 13. It is stated that the Trades Union Cpuncil was unquestionably fairly and squarely beaten. Alarmed at Mr. Justice Astbury's judgment they seized upon Sir Herbort Samuel's memorandum as offering an easy retreat to "save their faces." The statement made by Mr. A. J. Cook, the miners' secretary, suggests that the executive considers the miners were sacrificed on the altar of expediency. It is now apparent that the general strike weapon has lost its terrors. It is considered to have failed hopelessly, and will never be repeated. If it had been continued the Trades Union Council's discomfiture would have been increased daily. The best that can be said from the union's standpoint is that the strike was called off before its funds, believed to amount to £12.500,000, had been materially depleted in an effort which was doomed to disaster.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19328, 15 May 1926, Page 11
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