2 SEPTEMBER 1911, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—A letter lately in

the daily Press from a large employer of labour tells—no new thing—how " Socialists and others " try all they can to thwart profit-sharing, persecuting those of his workpeople who prefer loyalty to their employers to the miseries of a strike. Surely if the law, or the administration of it, is too lax against picket-bullying it must be made more effective. A and B have a right to combine with others whether or not to work on certain terms. But they have no right to hinder C and D from working (or not working) as C and D may prefer. Combining, then, becomes not self- defence but a war of aggression.—I am, Sir, &c.,