Our contemporary, The Woman's Leader, a paper which is to
be specially commended for the impartial way in which it gives opportunities for the statement of both sides of political issues, contains so excellent a statement by Lady Selborne in regard to the well-worn question of "the worker a wage-slave " that we cannot refrain from quoting it :— " A man who works for wages is iota slave, and it is simply a misuse of the English language to call him one. Certain circum- stances may be imagined which curtail his liberty of action, but normally he has a considerable choice as to what he shall do. He can choose his work, he can choose his master, and he can combine with his fellows to bargain for a fair rate of wage. Many of these liberties he would lose under a Socialist regime. He could not cheese his muster, because there would be only one master, the State. He could not combine to raise his wages, State. do not allow strikes. I suppose he might still choose his
work. The subjects of Lenin can much more truly be described as slaves than the subjects of King George."
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