WORKING MEN AND THE DRINK TRAFFIC.
(To THE EDITOE OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—I am sorry to see you still persist in repeating that calumny about the working man being responsible for the drink traffic being carried on during the war—at least so far as the Trade Unions are concerned. Surely you must be aware that at a recent Conference of the Independent Labour Party (of which I may say I am not a member) a resolution was passed demanding Prohibition. Whatever we may think of their attitude on the war, they have always been in favour of a sane temperance policy. As to your allusion in the last issue to "the brewer's best friends," what about. our " toping " patriots ? it is a well- known fact that the majority of peace meetings—whatever we may think of their utility—have been broken un by a drunken
rabble masquerading as " patriots."—I am, Sir &c., W. B.
[Our correspondent is very " zealously angry." We have never alleged that the British working man had vetoed War Prohibition, for the very good reason that we hold an exactly opposite view. What we have always said, on the authority of the Primo Minister, is that the loaders of the Trade Union organizations—a very different thing from the working man—have vetoed Prohibi- tion. We asked the Trade Union officials if they could to :epudieto and deny this allegation. They have made no sign. To tell us that the I.L.P. is for Prohibition is nothing to the matter.—En. Spectator.]
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