Mr. John Massie, late Liberal M..P. for Crick/ade, replies effectively
ia Thursday's Times to a letter from the Rev. A. J. Carlyle supporting the Labour attack on the Osborne judgment. While crediting Mr. Carlyle with a sincere desire to improve the conditions of labour, he points out that he is not dissatisfied to attain that end by such means as the
following :—" (1) Compulsory membership of a Trade-Union in order to avoid blacklegism and unemployment. (2) Com- pulsory payment by non-Socialist, and even anti-Socialist, working men for the maintenance of a Labour Member who may openly assert that anything short of State Socialism is but a transition stage. (3) Compulsory substitution by Labour Members of obedience for judgment, of delegation for representation, of the behests of an external committee for the interests of their constituents and of the country at large : in a word, the whole alphabet of Parliamentary freedom and duty said backwards."
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