In the House of Commons on Wednesday the Home Secretary
announced that the Metropolitan Police are to receive a sub- gentle! increase of pay and better conditions of service, but that the Police Union will not be recognized. Mr. Shoat went on to explain that the Government have no objection to let the police conduct their own internal organization for the protection of their Interests. " It will of coarse be entirely confined to the police, and free from allontaide control. The police cannot be organized upon industrial lines." The refusal to allow the police to have a Trade Union in the ordinary sense is perfectly sound. A Police Trade Union would be subject to the influences which control all other Unions. We should have the Metropolitan Police declaring a sympathetic strike because some turner or fitter in the Midlands had been dismissed. The situation would be impossible. The Government cannot give way upon this point.
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