striking impossible. There must be no more strikes.

"Sounds like home, doesn't it? To do away with strikes. You see the
employing class, which all around the world gets what it wants and
controls every government, had put itself back of the arbitration
law. It had discovered that the law could be made to be a good
thing, so it was at the dictation of this class that the amendments
were passed. What the injunction judges do in America, or try to
do, the law was to do in New Zealand.

"Except that not Judge Goff nor Judge Guy, nor any other injunction
judge of our own happy clime, has dared to go quite so far as to
declare that all striking everywhere is a crime to be punished with
imprisonment.

"How are you going to compel men to work? Why, thus, said the
government of New Zealand. Put them in jail if they do not like the
terms of their employment."

Mr. Russell then gives an account of the miners' strike, above referred
to, which he points out was ended by the labor department paying the
miners' fines. He concludes:--

"Mr. Edward Tregear, a scholar and thinker, had filled for many
years the place of chief secretary for labor. It is not a cabinet
office, but comes next thereto. He is a wise person and a sincere
friend of the worker, as he has shown on many occasions. As soon as
he heard that the ministry actually purposed to imprison the miners
because they did not like the terms of their employment, he went to
the minister of labor and earnestly protested, protested with tears
in his eyes, as the minister himself subsequently testified,
begged, argued, and pleaded. No possible good could come from such
rigor, and almost certainly it would precipitate grave disaster.

"To all this the minister was obdurate. Then Mr. Tregear said that
he would resign; he would not retain his office and see men
imprisoned for exercising their inalienable right of choice,
whether they would or would not work under given conditions.

"Now Mr. Tregear was one of the most popular men in New Zealand,
and his resignation under such conditions would raise a storm that
no ministry would care to face. Hence the government was in a worse
situation than ever. On one side it fronted a dangerous venture
with the certainty of a tremendous handicap in the resignation of
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