The leaders of the engineers declare that their failure to "make good" was mainly due to the action of the Government in cutting off supplies. It used the remnant of the powers of the War Precautions Act to prevent the strikers from operating their funds, and the public from assisting them, It is really questionable whether the Government's move did more than supply the means by which the leaders so: od their faces.
In the session of parliament which commences this week it is expected that the industrial laws will be altered, and that there will be power granted to the executive to apply the economic pressure which on this occasion has only been made possible and legi by the stretching of the provisions of the War Precautions Act. The extremist leaders—one-third Labour and two-thirds revelutionist—have for some ¢ime past set up the donger
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