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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 557, 15 January 1891, Page 2

The Timaru Herald, referring to the recent strike, says : Doubtless the sections nf the industrial classes which took part in that great folly have subjected themselves to severe discipline. It is to be hoped that the lesson which they have learned is not merely to be rnme careful in choosing their time for future eo fli i s with capi al, bur to earnestly cast about for methods by which misunderstandings and disagreements of all kind® between capital and labor may be adjusted without recourse being had to extreme measures. For it must be remembered that, no matter which side is triumphant in a strike, nothing oan be done after the collapse which might not have been done equally well before the commence ment of the Nor does a strike always terminate in favor of the party which has justice on its side. Might is too often right, aud the strong battalions win the day. Arbitration and cojicihation may not always obtain for the complainants the whole of what they ought to have, and may even less frequently give them all tha' they think should be theirs ; but the average result of such methods of arrangement (embracing the frntire field in which they are applied and extending over a period of years) will undoubtedly be a notable advance towards general equity and contentment, and will be secured at a cost utterly insignificant as compared with that which of necessity attaches to the method of settlement by the clumsy expedient of the strike.