TILE PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.
[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTLTOR."I have read Mr. Edmund G. Poole's letter on "The Pro- hibition Campaign" with interest. His statement, " In any case the drunken workmen form only an infinitesimal, and almost negligible, proportion of the whole number," shows that he has not the slightest knowledge of industrial conditions. If he were interested in trades such as the iron, shipbuilding, and coal trades, he would know that such a statement was the essence of absurdity. It is just these drunken workmen who in many cases lay whole squads of men idle for days. Mr. Poole does not under- stand how work in these trades is carried on, or ho would be well aware of this fact. That the bulk of the workmen resent the loss of time and money caused to them time and again by drunken mates is known to all employers in the West of Scotland. That many of the drunkards would welcome the shutting up of public- houses is also well known to employers. If Mr. Poole knew any- thing about delays in loading and unloading ships in docks he would not quote the Dockers' Union in his support.—I am, Sir,
&c., ROBERT M. WILSON. Tillicoultry House, Tillicoultry.
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