20 DECEMBER 1919, Page 3

The London Municipal Society has published some facts which show

what use is being made in some places of the Labour victories at the last London Borough Council elections. The Poplar Borough Council has decided that in granting increases of wages to the workmen of the Council there shall be no increase for those workers who are not members of Trade Unions. Non- Unionists, however, are allowed four weeks in which to join Unions. This is tyranny—interference with the liberty of the subject. Wages, of course, are, or should be, paid for work done, not because a man belongs to a Trade Union or any other body. One might as logically say that there should be no increase for members of the Church of England, or for teetotalers, or for men with red hair.