ward adjustments at all levels. Still the National Union of
Bank Employees remains dissatisfied. The increases, it considers, are inadequate, and—more hurtful to its pride—nothing has been done to give it recognition, so that it can explain over the con- ference table why it considers them inadequate. On the con- trary, the banks, by allowing their individual staff associations to make the announcement of the new salary scales, have administered a rebuff to the Union. For obviously, the Union feels, this was designed to allow these puppet associations to reap what credit they can for the victory. But will there be credit? It will be interesting to see whether events verify Mr. Anderson's prediction that the NUBE will suffer a decline in numbers and influence, leaving the top-hat tradition to win the day, or whether the bank clerks, agreeing with NUBE that the increases offered are derisory, will hurl their top hats out of the window and write for a Union card. The outcome may even depend not on the strength of the parties here, but on what happens in Ireland, for if the Irish bank clerks continue on their winning way, it will not be surprising if clerks here begin to think that two and two, added unionwise, could make five.
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