7 AUGUST 1926, Page 29

STRIKES.

In the course of his remarks, Lord Ashfield made some interesting comments upon the recent strike and the subsequent coal stoppage. After explaining that the operating companies of the Underground were doing well up to the time of the strike, Lord Ashfield said : " I take the opportunity of sayirg here that whatever may be, the effect upon the company's finances I am afraid that the general strike can only detri- mentally affent the employees, as, indeed, every strike which

Is merely sympathetic, seems to do. It is an absurdity, merging Into a tragedy, when the employees of a vast undertaking, providing essential needs of the public, are called on to take action in regard to disputes of which they thaw no first-hand knowledge. * * *