ABSTRACT
Earlier the Solicitor General, Sir Geoffrey Howe, pointed out that the act had much to do with curbing strike activity. Referring to the British strike pattern he said:
‘All the time the picture has been going from bad to worse. By the time the Donovan Commission was appointed in 1965, the number of strikes in industries, apart from coal-mining, had risen from six hundred a year during the 1950s to exactly twice as many in the 1960s.’
