13 JULY 1912, Page 2

No one can desire that the men, however misguided their

action, should be treated harshly or vindictively, but it must be realized by the public that the essential fact of the situation is that the strikers' places at the docks have been filled, and that it would be quite impossible for the employers to dis- charge the men who have stood by them during the strike in order to make way for men who not only struck, but have since done their best to ruin the business of the dock employers. Many of them have attempted, moreover, by acts of brutality and tyrannical violence to prevent the free labourers from exercising their right to work.