“ Anyhow, seeing that there has been no fixed rule on the subject, and that Short has made a huge blunder, to say the least of it, it is at least the Government's duty to assure the men that such of them as don't get in will be reinstated as if nothing had happened. In itself the grievance is not sufficent to justify a cessation of work, but coming at a time when the men are restless owing to Short's policy of procrastination regarding the wages question, it is just the sort of stupid bureaucratic blundering that may precipitate a strike. ”

“ We do not want to see what is undoubtably threatened come to pass when it can so easily be averted.
"The Sunday Times" is supporting the Government because it believes that the policy of the Liberal Party is calculated to promote the prosperity of all classes of the people, and that the policy of the Labor Party isn't, but it hates injustice by whomsoever committed. That an injustice, and a grave injustice, is being done to the railway servants by the dismissal of Burchill and Lewis in the sinfully tactless and arbitrary manner in which it has been done, there cannot be the shadow of a doubt. ”

“ Several years ago, about eight or nine, the Commissioner tried to introduce a rule that no railway employee should nominate for roads boards, municipal councils, Parliament and such positions, but there was such a great uproar over it—not only in the department but through the Press—that it had been withdrawn. It had never been insisted on that a man should resign until he was elected. ”