The Archive · 1920

The Strike Breakers

Information is given in a paper just to hand of a great organization in Denmark for strike breaking. Details which have reached~ Shanghai during the past few months, from travellers and other sources, have pointed to Denmark as a.kind of working class El Dorado, where Labour inclines to work only when the spirit moves and then only for exorbitant. rewards, When people are in that state of mind strikes are an expected accompaniment, and to counteract this ruinous condition a social service organization has been set afoot. As a result of this movement we find that when a steamer of the Scandinavian-American Line recently reached New York she had a thoroughly extra~ ordinary crew aboard. One of the hands was a leading Danish banker, another a distinguished engineer, while though identities were carefully concealed, it was learned that other professional men and members of that hardworking body the middle class, were among the crew. The rea: son ior it all was a strike demoralizing the shipping of the country, and to break it, to keep the nation going as a nation, the social service workers stepped into the breach. It is an example to ne applauded. In Great Britain the people showed what could be done during the great railivay strike, and now Denmark seems to hav gone a step further and or, nized itself as a nation to fight Labour tyran Labour at times wonders why it is unpopular, but when it finds itself ranged against the rest of the people it should have no difficulty in grasping the reason.

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