An Interesting Comparison.

Now compare these figures with our Motherland's experience. From 1891 to 1900, that is in ten years, there were 7931 labour conflicts in Great Britain, involving 2,732,169 workers. It is estimated that the total wage-earners of Great Britain of all classes was in 1906, 14,640.000, and, during the decade in question would be about 12,700,000. Thus, during this decade, over 20 per cent of the British workers were at some time or other directly involved in a labour conflict, as compared with less than onehalf per cent, in New Zealand during thirteen years.

The total number of days British workmen were idle in these ten years owing to strikes (i.e., multiplying the days idle by the number of men idle), was 106,191,528, making an average idleness of about 39 days per man.