Is there to be any freedom left in this regulated
country ? N. it, it is clear, where Socialists in alliance with trade unionists—most of them, no doubt, are trade unionists themselves—are in command of local Councils. Durham appears to be a flagrant example. The Council has laid it down that all its employees shall joint a union or be dismissed, and it is now attempting to apply this indefensible piece of tyranny against its doctors (employed in such services as maternity and child welfare) and teachers. The latter, I suppose, are required to joint the National Union of Teachers, and it is much to the credit of the N.U.T. that it appears to have advised teachers generally to ignore the Council's order to them to produce proof of their membership of a union. If the teachers have the public spirit to stand together for freedom here the Council will be helpless ; it can hardly afford to bring its educational services to a standstill. Fortunately the Minister of Health is against the Council. it * * *
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