Any policy that brings _mutual_ gain requires no organized struggle of any kind.

It is the workers who are the plaintiffs, and the employers the defendants.

When things are left _in statu quo_ it is a moral and actual defeat for the employees.
This is why, in the last two or three years, the whole labor movement in New Zealand has arisen against the law.

In 1908 the coal miners' union refused to pay a fine levied against it, alleging that it had no funds.
"In this position the union was generally condemned by public opinion, but supported by a number of unions by resolutions of sympathy and gifts of money.

Finally, the Arbitration Court decided to proceed against the men individually for their share of the fine.