Suppose for a moment that your employer came to you with the news that you would henceforward be required to work longer hours for a lower wage. Indeed, everyone in your industry would have to make the same sacrifice. And unless you would accept these new working conditions you would be "locked out" of your job and prevented from working—your job would cease to exist. - Full text at: http://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2016/may-june/general-strike-remembered#sthash.kOj2Djca.dpuf