A SILLY HABIT.
There seems to be no explanation of the coal strike in Otago and the sympathetic strikes elsewhere than the fact that the men have got into the habit of going out on strike and they cannot change their ways. The Court in the south hoard a dispute in which
the miners declined to be heard, although they had been cited. The men affected then went out on strike and other tf-uions, notably on the West fGoast, ca-nie out also, just because they ;ire in the, habit of acting in this stupid manner without even asking
what the grievance is. Apart altogether from the wrong-hcadcdness of the decision, a strike- was quite futile as a means of gaining any end at all. There is no hope now of bullying or browbeating the employers and the country. Individual miners who read their papers must have known that. But, having chosen to strike, they remained out long enough to see how utterly foolish it was, and they are now dwindling quietly back to work. Who is any better off for ;tf It certainly is about time that the individual commonsense of the worker took control of the unions.
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Wairarapa Age, 10 December 1921, Page 4
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198A SILLY HABIT. Wairarapa Age, 10 December 1921, Page 4
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