That was meanin' that guns would be lacking, or shell, or rifles, or hand grenades, or what not in the way of munitions, on the Western front.
But the threat was sae vital that it won, tae often I'm no saying it was used every time.

Nor am I saying labor did not have a richt to what it asked.

It's just this--canna we get alang without making threats, one to the other?
And there were some strikes that had serious consequences.

There were strikes that delayed the building of ships, and the making of cannon and shell.

And as a result of them men died, in France, and in Gallipoli, and in other places, who need no have died.