EXTREMIST UNION BOSSES AND " TOMMIES."
(To THS EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR .—Tho Bristol Docks Committee succumbed to a fiat of the extremist bosses, and no " Tommy " can get work in the Bristol Docks unless he has a pre-war Union ticket. A master marble mason in Bristol lately wanted to put on four "Tommies'"; he wag told if he did his men would come out on strike. They were not put on. Lately at Clitheroe the Secretary of the Weavers' Association wrote and printed: "He had especial sympathy with the ex-Service men who had been thrown out of work before they had time to qualify for Union pay." Most excellent sympathy. Compel the men to go on strike and refuse the men who have saved these bosses' lives any pay! The men who have skunked at home can have that pay,. Mr. Lloyd George made an appeal to employers to employ " Tommies." Will he now send an appeal to those bosses to allow the " Tommy " to work? What the " Tommies " think of these anti-English bosses is proved by the vigorous action against them at Neath and Treorchy,in South Wales, where they hunted them out of the place. During the war these men did their utmost to kill " Tommies " by holding up
transport, blocking coal delivery, delaying ships. Did they hope to kill off all the thinking men who saved us from Beetle slavery, that they might more easily boss every one when the war was over? It looks like it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
JAMES BAKER, F.R.Hist.Soc.
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