Note 701 — Chapter X · (continued 2)

At the end of our chapter on the “Method of Collective Bargaining” we cursorily dealt with the strike as a necessary incident of collective bargaining: “It is impossible to deny that the perpetual liability to end in a strike or a lock-out is a grave drawback to the Method of Collective Bargaining. So long as the parties to a bargain are free to agree or not to agree, it is inevitable that, human nature being as it is, there should now and again come a deadlock, leading to that trial of strength and endurance which lies behind all bargaining. We know of no device for avoiding this trial of strength except a deliberate decision of the community expressed in legislative enactment” (Industrial Democracy, p. 221).