ABSTRACT
While the Report of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers’ Associations was being prepared it became increasingly obvious to those who were involved that most people outside were only interested in what the report was going to say about strikes. It seemed likely that if the Commissioners came out in favour of the status quo, or advocated the introduction of simple but draconic legal penalties to be imposed on all unofficial strikers, they would be denounced by some and applauded by others, but at least they would be understood. If, on the other hand, they listed a number of detailed proposals for long-run reform, prefaced by a statistical analysis of the nature and significance of Britain’s strike problem-most people would not get the point.
