The Archive · 1926

An End to All Law

Tt is not so much that we object to strikes in general; so long as there is sufficient reasonable cause for them to take place, but we do object to the forms they take now-Jo-days. Strikes of the kind just seen in C.'C. C. used to be very uncommon, but they are spreading vapidly, for these workmen, mostly. uneducated, feel the strength of their power, and like a child with until now... Law to them is

nothing, so long as they get what they want, and that is} much, since they seem to be never content. In the C. C. C. case, wol are not even sure whether it was all a trumped-up affair in order to be able to move back into the campus or a real loss; I am inclined to think it was the former. No matter we look at it, the result was} absolutely unjustifiable, The Canton labour unions havoc made a rule, that when a workman does something wrong, he can onl be dismissed after the union has consented; thus it follows that i the union declares him not guilty, the employer cannot discharge him, In the matter of stealing, the same rule is applied. What isthe judiciary for then? If all mis-then what is there left. for} the Jaw to do? "Something must bell done; as it is, the judicial power off the whole nation

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