31 JANUARY 1931, Page 1

In some sense the question is, of course, an academic

one for everybody, for if all the wage-earners in the country decided to strike simultaneously, no law how;- ever strict could cope with them.- That consideration however, does not mitigate the extreme undesirability of putting on the Stattite Book an Act which, to say the least of it, would give distinctly more sanction to the idea of a General Strike than the law gives now. The core of the Trade Disputes Bill is that part of it which says that no General Strike becomes legal until it is de dared to be so by the High Court.