SEEMING TRIVIA
Sm,—Your comment upon the London hotel strike is opportune, as is your reminder that this strike was aggravated by the interference of agitators patently inspired by political rather than industrial motives. Significant, too, is the fact that these agitators tried their hardest to induce workers in many other industries to stage " sympathy " strikes. The purpose was plainly that of causing as much disruption as possible to our commerce. Although we have been accustomed in the past to ridicule the activities of this subversive element, recent events in other countries—noticeably in Canada and in France—have shown that such activities are neither negligible nor harmless. They are directed by men who are experts in fomenting unrest and in spreading propaganda utterly hostile to democracy and freedom. Short of a general strike or some similar national calamity, we cannot hope to estimate the true strength of this movement. Nor are the down-at-heel pickets, the street-corner orators, representative of the brain-power behind the group. These are the underlings, obeying instructions of superiors who carefully conceal any connection with the movement and who are free from suspicion.
It is becoming daily clearer that a powerful and ruthless nation is pursuing her fixed ambition of imposing a single ideology upon the rest of Europe—if not upon the world. The seemingly trivial incident of the London hotel strike was merely one of the bubbles rising to the cauldron's surface. We must be ready for the time when this evil mixture reaches boiling-point, and be prepared to cope with any emergency which may then occur—such an emergency as the French Government has had to meet in the past few days. France's plight is our warning. It is the aim of the subversive element in this country to reproduce such chaos over here.—Yours faithfully, W. J. HARRIS.
24 Croydon Road, Reigate, Surrey.
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