25 FEBRUARY 1922, Page 3

The Transport Workers' Federation began on Monday a national boycott

of beer, not because the- union officials are allies - of "Mr Pussyfoot," but because they- think' that the beer is too weak and too dear. There is :a conflict of .-evidence as to whether the boycott has been generally observed by the dockers and carmen._ Disinterested -observers will wish, for the sake. of. the. transport workers; wives and, _families, . that this - heroic effiart of self-denial may .be .widespre-ad... If men. would abstain for a time, the price of beer would infallibly come down. Meanwhile, perhaps, they might. have .found.. out. -that they did .not really need to spend so large a .part of their earnings ondrink.