STRIKES log 



act harmoniously, that they should recognise 

 the common object, realise that nothing can be 

 achieved by hostility, and that the problem before 

 them is a great problem, demanding early solution 

 by the removal of misunderstanding, and the 

 substitution of a true aim for insufficient aims. 



It is scarcely necessary to prove, for it is 

 patent to all, and is, besides, the subject of 

 common talk, that, all the world over, the rela- 

 tions between employers and workmen are most 

 unsatisfactory. It is almost impossible now to 

 take up a daily newspaper without hearing of a 

 strike somewhere or other. Yesterday it was in 

 France, to-day it is in some province of America, 

 both these coming on the top of other strikes in 

 England and Wales. Strikes are not confined 

 to any particular people, they are on all scales, 

 and they do not occur under one form of govern- 

 ment much more frequently than under another. 

 The German Empire has lately been troubled 

 with strikes on a large scale ; not long ago 

 France, one of the great republics, was threat- 

 ened with an almost unparalleled strike ; in 

 the United States of America, the great sister 

 republic, strikes seem to be always occurring. 

 Canada, though not a republic, is a country 

 enjoying nearly complete freedom, and yet here 

 we have seen huge railway strikes, tramway 

 strikes, lumber strikes, and coal strikes. In the 

 British Isles, a limited monarchy, if there were 

 a temple of Janus, open only during strikes, its 

 doors would be but rarely shut. 



Nor do the v/orkmen of any one trade assume 



