The Madura Mills strike, the local Tramways strike and the larger strikes of the G.I.P. Workshops and the Postal peons at Bombay are indications that the relations between Labour and Capital are becoming strained. It is no use of ascribing all strikes to political propagandism. If the employees of any concern were happy and contented, they would scarcely give heed to the eloquence of the political agitator... It is because labour is discontented and feels itself powerless to better itself that the political agitator finds a congenial soil to sow his seeds of unrest. The telegraph strike which was felt so acutely in India was not due to political machinations, neither the Railway strike, nor the G.I.P. strike. The pressure of high prices and hard work combined have had their usual consequences in hardship and discontent. The strikes of Government employees are not on all fours with the strikes of men in joint stock companies and single concerns. The conditions of service are altogether different and Government, it must be said to their credit, are so rarely forgetful of the rights of their employees as to drive the latter to strike. Taken all in all, labour fares more favourably in Government service that it does in a company, be it the best. A strike in a Government department may be considered ipso facto the sign of the utter incompetence of the head of the department.