THE GUILD OF PRESS CORRECTORS. [TO THE EDITOR OF Till
"SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I should be very grateful if you would find it possible to give publicity to the following facts concerning the Annual Dinner of the Guild of Press Correctors at the Hotel Cecil on Saturday last.
The large gathering was- ample proof of the virility of this newly formed body. When the stand was made last year in the printing trade against the interference of trade unionism between the masters and. the men, and many houses broke away. from the domination of Socialistic agitators, a large number of members of the Association of Correctors of the Press seceded, and eventually formed themselves into a guild to protect and further their interests, to uphold the right of freedom of contract, to encourage arbi- tration as a means of settling trade differences, and for other objects equally laudable. All the offices are filled voluntarily, and already the Guild has proved its usefulness and utility. Mr. E. C. Austen Leigh, M.A. (President), was in the chair, and the gratifying announcement was made that a most satisfactory response had resulted from the appeal for subscriptions to form the nucleus of a pension fund. The keynote of the speeches was the imperative necessity that existed for both employers and employed to stem the tide of Socialism threatening the country, and to secure for the worker the right to dispose of his labour without dictation from paid agitators.—I am, Sir, &c.,
(Chairman of the Guild.)
[We rejoice to hear of the formation of an Association
which realizes that the masters and the men are partners, not enemies or rivals, and that their relations should be regulated by a wise recognition of facts and not by an unwise application of fallacious theories based on the alleged conflict between capital and labour.—En. Spectator. 1
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