20 APRIL 1912, Page 14

WHY NOT EXPERIMENT IN SYNDICALISM P

ITO TED EDITOR Or TEE "81.11CTATOR."1

SIR,—Your article on " Why not Experiment in Syndi- calism ? " reminds me of the shrewd and genial Craig, whom many of us remember as selling his cricket verses at Lord's and the Oval. One day I heard a man in the crowd call out: 'I say, Craig, I could make as good verses as yours myself." "Yes, Sir," said Craig, "I daresay, and better; but you couldn't sell 'em." The crowd laughed and Craig snored. Craig's retort puts, as in a nutshell, the case against Syndi- calism as applicable to any industry save such as may be concerned with a monopoly of something necessary.—I am, Sir, Six., MARX CASSIDY. St. James's Vicarage, Westgate, Kent.