In regard to the unrest which is at the moment
going on on the Clyde we desire at present to say as little as possible. This is emphatically a case in which the less said the soonest mended. On Tuesday it was announced that the military, acting under the Defence of the Realm Act, had seized in their beds six ringleaders of a dangerous labour movement in the munition area and deported them to another part of Scotland. Though no actual charge was preferred against the six ringleaders, it was understood that they had induced men engaged in munitions work to strike. Twenty- two munition workers who took part in the strike were brought before the General Munitions Tribunal in Glasgow on Wednesday, and were fined £5 each. Though the situation is necessarily causing a good deal of anxiety, there is no reason to suppose that the workers on the Clyde are going to be so unpatriotic as to show a spirit different from that of the workers in the rest of the country, and to cripple munitions work over a petty " shop " dispute. If they were to perpetrate such a crime, we are certain that they would have no support from their fellows in the rest of Scotland and England.
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