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To illegalize a general strike in that background is to say that the trade unions should have acquiesced in the defeat of the miners without an attempt to prove their solidarity with them.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “To illegalize a general strike in that background is to say that the trade unions should have acquiesced in the defeat…”
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Laski argues that making general strikes illegal would force trade unions to accept defeat without resistance.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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