Sad Results of the Strike
Wellingtoh Benevolent Society has repeated applications for relief by working men who have been converted into idlers by the late deplorable strike. This is a matter for the Trade-Unions to consider. It is shameful that men, who have faithfully obeyed Union leaders, Bhould be left helplessly stranded in this way, and it is most distressing that wives and children should suffer deprivation from the same cause. A grain of foresight is in such matters worth a ton of pluck and devotion. No strike should be undertaken unless there is a moral oertainty of success, or unless there is a grievance too heavy to be borne. If the distress now experienced at Wellington was merely a ohange of sufferers, the evil would not; be so flagrant; but there is reason to believe that the strike has resulted in a general restriction of trade and labour, which only the lapse of months will alter.
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Observer, Volume X, Issue 623, 6 December 1890, Page 12
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157Sad Results of the Strike Observer, Volume X, Issue 623, 6 December 1890, Page 12
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