NATIONALIZATION AND THE LIQUOR TRADE. '
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—In view of the criticisms which have been levelled against the Liquor Control Board's experiment in .direct control in Carlisle and district, and of the suggestions which have been made that this experiment is locally unpopular, we think it will be of interest to your readers to know the considered view of the organized Labour movement in that area. On Saturday, November 8th, a Conference was held at Carlisle under the auspices of the Carlisle Trades Council and Labour Party and attended by about 250 delegates from the various Trade Union and Labour organizations in the area in which the experiment is in operation. After full discussion two resolutions were carried with only one dissentient. In the first the Conference affirmed its belief in the public ownership and control of the Liquor Trade. In the second it urged the Government "to continue the principle of the public ownership of the Liquor Trade in the Carlisle area, and further to extend the principle to the whole country, with provision of such machinery as will ensure proper effect being given to public opinion in the various areas." It is clear, therefore, that there is no claim on the part of organized. Labour in the Carlisle district to
revert to private ownership; on the contrary, both resolutions are emphatic in their support of public ownership.—We are,
Sir, &c., ARTHUR GREENWOOD, I
J. J. MAtioN, Hon. Secretaries.
45 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C. I.
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