• * * * Another prominent figure in the Labour
world who is retiring is Mr. Havelock Wilson, the President of the National Union of Seamen and Firemen. Although he is nearly seventy years old, he has no liking for idleness, and he proPosei to workas" hard as ever for the Industrial Peace Union in which he has long been interested. Mr. Havelock Wilson has fought a lone4F fight with extreme Pelts inaeity and co. nrage. For many years he has been a Cripple, but. 'neither Phisieal disability nor suffering has sapped his energy. The members of his Union have regarded him as an oracle and again and again have followed him when he stood in opposition to some popular strike movement. Among revolutionaries he is perhaps the most hated man in England. Apparently he has rather liked being denounced as a- traitor, for then he knew that he was making some progress in the cause of industrial peace. * * * *
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