Mr. G. H. Roberts, the Food Controller, speaking to the
Industrial League on Tuesday, administered a severe rebuke to Mr. Smillie for signing the Whitley Report and then doing his utmost to prevent that admirable scheme from succeeding. Mr. Smillie made no reservation in his approval of the Whitley Committee's plan for joint Trade Councils of employers and workmen, yet he was trying to promote a class-war. Mr. Roberts, as an old Trade Union leader and a Labour Member, said that Mr. Smillie was " either dishonest or intellectually incapable of making any protest against the recommendations in the Report," and that he was " a man wholly unworthy of taking the rank of leader and a man against whom the working classes ought to be warned." We are glad that Mr. Roberta spoke so plainly. Mr. Smillie and his • friends are trying to turn the Labour movement into revolutionary courses with which the vast majority of working men have no sympathy.
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