26 JUNE 1915, Page 3

Friday week's papers contained an interesting account of the visit

of eight skilled workmen from the Clyde to the front. Sir William Beardmore, head of the Glasgow firm, described how the belief that the men were not putting their backs into their work, and the conviction that they had only to realize the state of affairs on the spot to give the full output, induced him to ask Lord Kitchener's leave to send several of them to the front. He did so in the belief that they would come back "determined to work to the utmost, and fired with infectious zeal which would permeate the workshops." Lord Kitchener readily acquiesced, and the men, who were chosen by the workmen, and beaded by Mr. Brodie, an organizer of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, spent three days with the troops.