EMPLOYERS AND THE TERRITORIALS.
[To Tut EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."3
there be any end to the concessions which em- ployers of labour must be asked to make under the present system of recruiting the Territorial Forces ? And will the employers (who are said to "hold the key of the problem ") ever be accorded fair play ? The present is an age of Rights. Every suitable youth has a right to be taught in his youth bow to defend his home and country against foreign aggres- sion. Surely then, Sir, the employers who can only spare him for fifteen days' training a year should be safeguarded from the competition of those who can spare him not at all by making the need of his country the first call on his time, for the use of which he would be paid by his country ! Has this method any equal for comprehensive fair play P Questions like these will probably be asked at Lord Haldane's conference of employers to be held in London on the 22nd inst., and if pressed home the resulting discussion can hardly fail to interest the public, who are always anxious to get at the truth if they can, and to see fair play, particularly in a matter affecting the welfare of the country as a whole, besides that of our youths and of their employers. —I am, Si,-, &c., Commander R.N.
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