A correspondent writes to -uggest that a few words be said on the duties of employers in relation to the war. "I have heard," he says, ''of one or two cases where men employed by British firms have volunteered for service but have been refused leave by their employ-ere. One would think that some means might, and indeed ought, to be found to let the men go." We. think that the matter can scarcely be dealt with on quite such gen-oral lines. While it is obviously the duty of employers to make it as easy as possible for their employees to volunteer, each partioular case must, surely, be settled on ita_own merits. It la conceivable that o time may come when every man who oan use a rifle will be needed, when for the moment the business of the Empire will have to look after iteclf. That time has not come yet. '(Business as far as possible as usual" is still the right motto for the day, and, where employees really feel that they cannot spare their men, they are, it seems to us, right in refusing to Jet them go. On the other hand, before leave is refused, employers ought to be very sure that s particular "job" cannot possibly be left unattended.
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