15 OCTOBER 1943, Page 12

STRIKERS AND OVERSTRAIN

Snt,—One of the unfortunate consequences of your gibing comparison between factory workers and the Fifth Army, and your further deter- mination to stick by it, is that we can have little likelihood, for a number of months at least, of any dispassionate editorial discussion on the growing problem of more and more men who have been working long hours, 51 weeks a year, for three years or more. Also, as a corollary to the subject, I would like to ask if you know any reason, now when the likelihood of in7asion has so greatly lessened, other than that of a machine running under its own unseeing, unhearing momentum, of calling both more hard-worked men into the Homil Guard and increasing the demands on those already in.—I remain, yours, &c., 6 Airedale Avenue, Chiswick, W. 4. DION MURRAY.