WORK AND HOURS.
[To the Editor of the Srr:e•eAToH.] your issue of November 8th Mr. Kirkbride says that the Government must not " prate about harder work and longer hours." When the present short working week was introduced on the demand of Labour, we were assured that the output would be the same or larger. On the contrary, the output per man is ever decreasing. Longer hours now arc no doubt out of the question ; but harder work is the one and only " positive remedy " for unemployment. The late Government knew that when they claimed alone to have that remedy ; and certainly they were the only party which could recommend it to their masters, the Trades Unions. Most Labour election addresses said with emphasis that the Ballot is secret." But the Trades- Union ballots as to strikes, &c., are not secret. If they were, we should not be losing our
industrial supremacy through perpetual defiance of economic law. All ballots should by law be made secret, including that great and most necessary of all, the Referendum—the one safety device between prosperity and red ruin after the next swing of the electoral pendulum.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Elstowe, Jenner Road, Guildford. J. W. MEARES,.
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