[To ran EDITOR or THZ STRCTATOR."] Suz,-1 can corroborate all
that has been said in your columns about the Labour Ministry and Exchanges. During a con- siderable part of the war I was in the Civil Service. Naturally I thought the Labour Ministry would be able to do something for me in peace. But being on what is called the live registry I found only meant being bandied about from hotel to hotel fruitlessly. Three times I wrote to the then Minister, Sir R. Horne. Eventually, with a number of others, I was sent for to Horrex's Hotel, and in a speech of about a quarter of an hour's length we were more or less politely informed that there was nothing for us. Doubtless we figure in statistics as persons whose cases have been satisfactorily disposed of. The Exchanges, if anything, are worse. There you cannot even get
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