What annoys people more than anything is the Sbvious fact that the existence of a Labour Gor ment synchronizes with industrial unrest. "Tt is no good pretending that this is not the ease. All over the country there are sporadic outbreaks by Labour agitators, of which we are now having the worst in London, in the shape of another partial stoppage of all Underground traffic, the third in six months, Tt quite an irresponsible outbreak, disowned for the most part by the Unions concerned, and regarded by the Government with an appalling amount of complaisaney.
'That. this is so, is shown by Me. Shaw, the Minister' of Labour, who calmly announced in the Housa as the railways were nationalized the Government not see why it should interfere a dispute of this nature, He hurriedly tried to modify the bad impression that sentiment caused, but, of course, it did represent the views of the Government, who never intervene if they think' it will pain Labour feeling. "Ministers are always frightened of, being hauled dover the coals by the "Daily Herald" which, though supposed to be a Government organ, appears to be entirely in extremist hands, 'The public, though never badly disposed towards wage claims, i€ they are justified, very much' ro-sents the present way in which it "held up," and will not forget what is happening when the time, arrives for expressing an opinion fon Labour methods—generally. Railway workers are, as a matter of fact, mot badly paid, but Com= Monit infioenees ore sprondng very rapidly, and T could quote at least half-a-dozen trates where the workers ave t yndicalist attitude, in oth that the industry should' be solely run for the benefit of the workers in it, irrespective of any gain either to Capital or to the community, This doctrine ix now even being uppiled to the Post Office.
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