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.LETTERS - TO
THE EDITOR
Conservatism and Liberty •
Sta.—Mr. HubertHams, in your issue of August 3rd; seems to be making rather heavy Weather over the prospects of the Conservatives at the next election. There is every indication that the industrial vote, which at the last two electiMis gave Lahour a majority, is now swinging Right, and this is the surest sign of a Conservative victory. Victory achieved, the threatened strikes will not materialise because the ordinary trade unionist (incidentally numbering only.8 out of 23 million registered workers) is an immensely sensible chap, and he will 4Upport any Govern- ment which will defend his freedoms, his wage packet- and his own particular way of life—all of which a Conservative Government will do with far greater vigour than the present Labour caucus. The so-called suspicion, to which Mr. Williams refers, will then be seen to have been nothing more than the product of astute, if not very accurate, proPaganda. Mr. Williams mentions the need for a crusade, apparently unaware that such a crusade has been in operation since the autumn of 1945 (maybe not in the vicinity of Park Lane, from where Mr. Williams writes,. but in South Wales, Tyneside, Clydeside, Lancashire and the Midlands, &c.). Specious promises of houses, lower living costs, more food and higher wages, coupled with a rigid, regimented party system, take a bit of shifting. However, the time is now ripe Yours faithfUlly,
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