What the injunction judges do in America, or try to do, the law was to do in New Zealand.
"Except that not Judge Goff nor Judge Guy, nor any other injunction judge of our own happy clime, has dared to go quite so far as to declare that all striking everywhere is a crime to be punished with imprisonment.
"How are you going to compel men to work?
Why, thus, said the government of New Zealand.

Put them in jail if they do not like the terms of their employment." Mr.Russell then gives an account of the miners' strike, above referred to, which he points out was ended by the labor department paying the miners' fines.

He concludes:-- "Mr.Edward Tregear, a scholar and thinker, had filled for many years the place of chief secretary for labor.

It is not a cabinet office, but comes next thereto.

He is a wise person and a sincere friend of the worker, as he has shown on many occasions.