The indignant determination of the seamen under the leadership of
Mr. Havelock Wilson, for instance, to have nothing to do with German ships in future, to refuse to unload German cargoes or to carry German passengers, is a very significant thing. Theoretically it is impossible to approve of a censorship, for such it would be, privately set up by one class within the kingdom ; but the motives behind this determination are perfectly sound and intelligible and worthy of sympathy. Moreover, if the British seamen hold together, they will have the power to do exactly what they say. Nobody can prevent them. It would be well for those leaders who think like Mr. Barnes (for, as we have said, there are several of them) to get together and guide the destinies of the Labour Party in such a way as not to exclude the sympathy of other classes.
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