Our readers may remember that last week we suggested that
the crude and intemperate views as to the new restrictions which came into operation on Monday were due, not to aggrieved Trade Unionists, but to a stage army put into motion by " tho trade." We note that Mr. Thomas, the wall-knOwn Labour Member, ie reported by the Times of Monday to have spoken as follows:-
" The names of Trade Unions and of their own Union had been used by people who did not care a rap for Trade, Unions or their own society. In other words, they were being used in the interests of brewers and publicans. The Control Board had clearly and definitely told him ,that there was nothing in the new, restrictions to justify the owners of public-houses turning members of Trade Unions and Friendly Societies from their meeting-places after hours. Let them not be made the tool of people who were anxious now to secure the liberty of the working man,' but who, if there was a labour trouble, would not care."
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