The most practical reply to the threats of revolutionary Labour
leaders last spring was made in Glasgow. A few public- spirited citizens had started a Roll of Voluntary Workers, who were prepared at a moment's notice to assist in maintaining the public services in the event of a general strike by the " Triple Alliance." On " Black Friday," early in April, when the railwaymen and transport workers were to be called out, the committee had seventy qualified locomotive drivers and stokers ready to replace the strikers, and three hundred motor transport drivers to bring food to the city. When the Glasgow dockers struck, in spite of their leaders, rather than unload coal for the public undertakings, the committee found hundreds of volun- teers to do the work and thus keep up the supply of electricity and gas for the city. The Roll of Voluntary Workers thus helped to save Glasgow from being inconvenienced by the local Bolsheviks, who are mostly Irish or aliens. We are glad to know that the organization—whose founder and chairman is Mr. J. M. Tennant, and whose secretary is Mr. W. W. Capes, of 166 Buchanan Street, Glasgow—is to be kept in being if a small fund can be raised to meet incidental expenses.
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