It must not be answered here that the individual workman is free at any

time to escape from the consequences of an injustice which he has

actually suffered at the hands of an employer, or which he thinks he has

suffered–in other words, he can leave. No. That argument is only a ruse

to detract attention from the question at issue. Is it, or is it not, in

the interests of the nation to remove the causes of social unrest? If it

is, then the fight must be carried on with the only weapons that promise

success. But the individual workman is never in a position to stand up

against the might of the big employer; for the question here is not one

that concerns the triumph of right. If in such a relation right had been

recognized as the guiding principle, then the conflict could not have

arisen at all. But here it is a question of who is the stronger. If the

case were otherwise, the sentiment of justice alone would solve the

dispute in an honourable way; or, to put the case more correctly,

matters would not have come to such a dispute at all.