In New Zealand you do not have to strike, because in that country a substitute for the strike is provided by law.

To this substitute, a Court of Arbitration, the women took their grievance.

The employer in his answer declared, just as employers in this country might have done, that his business would not stand an increase in wages.

He explained that the match industry was newly established in New Zealand, and that, until it was on a secure basis, factory owners could not afford to pay high wages.
The judge ordered an inquiry.

In this country it would have been an inquiry into the state of the match industry.