THE ILLEGALITY OF A GENERAL STRIKE/
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. J. W. Meares, seems to have in- completely understood the implications of Mr. Justice Astbury's decision. Even if the necessary seven days' notice had been given, the strike, except in the case of the miners, would still! have been illegal ; first, because there was no evidence of any industrial dispute between the members of individual unions and their respective employers and, secondly, because the T.U.C., which called the strike, is not itself a trade union. This must mean not only that the general strike is illegal, but also that the so-called sympathetic strike is illegal, as, obviously, the members of a trade union which calls a sympathetic strike may be involved in no industrial dispute whatever with their own employers.—I am, Sir, &c., T. P. Hoc°.
Ryecroft House, Ryecroft Street, Ashton-on-Lyne.
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