Industrial relations
Sir: Graham Jones's piece, "Give an Act a bad name" (April 27) has hit the nail on the head. This is no time for the Tories to falter before the nation's myopic attitude towards industrial relations. In February the British people evaded the issue and in effect allowed a handful of extremists to hijack the proper process of democratic government.
In the last few years we have heard a number of appeals from politicians of various persuasions for a revival of the "Dunkirk spirit," but the truth is that we are passing through a period of phoney war ant; it will take another Dunkirk to bring the nation to a full realisation of the danger that confronts it. Before long the unfinished business of the Heath administration will have to be taken up again and the threat posed by certain sections of organised labour to our system of government checked before it is too late.
It is worth bearing in mind the words of Edmund Burke, "Men must have a certain fund of moderation to qualify them for Freedom else it becomes noxious to themselves and a perfect nuisance to everybody else."
C. J. Arthur The Coach House, Windlesham Court, Windlesham, Surrey.
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