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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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Laski argues that making general strikes illegal would force trade unions to accept defeat without resistance.
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