20 JULY 1912, Page 3

On the general merits two things seem to us clear.

(1) The employers cannot agree to any terms which will invelve the dismissal of men who have stood by them throughout the strike and of whom some 19,000 are now at work. (2) The employers cannot assent to any terms which will make it impossible for non-union men to work at the docks. They cannot be parties to the tyrannical attempt to say that a man has no right to dispose of his labour as he chooses.