20 MAY 1955, Page 4

Mr. FOULKES'S CHALLENGE

paralyse the nation's electricity supply is doubtful and it will not attempt what it cannot hope to achieve. For the rest, employers must resist demands which it is beyond the capacity of industry to bear—and the Government must not proceed on the assumption that strikes are evils to be avoided at all costs. Given these conditions, all that matters is that the nature of Mr. Foulkes's challenge should be clearly understood by those against whom it is directed. That is to say, by the rest of the community and most notably the rest of the labour move- ment, and Mr. Foulkes should be in no doubt that his challenge, if pressed, will be accepted.