We hope and believe that all that is much too
pessimistic, but the spirit which prompts the words is admirable, and we are quite sure that the same spirit moves the vast majority of working mon throughout the country. The real heart of Labour is as sound and brave and sensible as ever it was. We may hear of industrial unrest and grievances of all kinds ; we may hear endless atories of " grousing " in the Army ; but when the average working man is brought face to face with the question whether he wants to do anything that can conceivably make it easier for his brutal enemy to win, he uses language of anger and repudiation which proves in a moment the intensity both of his scorn and his resolution. He keeps firmly to his own opinion, and no amount of manipulation of policy by the smaller and more intellectual sections within the organization of Labour—sections, by the way, which contain persons who are not in the conventional sense working mon at all— will make him depart from it.
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