[TO TUE EDITOR. OF THE "SPBOTATOIL1
have no doubt you meant to be fair in your article on "The Morality of Piecework" a fortnight ago, but excuse my saying that a pin's point will pierce your argument fatally. You postulate all through it that the Amalgamated Engineers propose to force any one to forswear piecework. But they don't. The most they propose (and they do not go so far even as that, at present), is to say to those who prefer piecework, "You shall not belong to the Amalga- mated Engineers." They have, at least, as much right to say that as his club had to expel Mr. Lyttelton. Prove, if you can, that piecework is for the good of the workman, but do not try, tot it is impossible to prove that the majority is bound to sacrifice the interests of the majority for the sake of a minority, when the interests of the majority are the raison d'être of the body.—! am,
Sir, &c.,
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