RE-EMPLOYMENT.
[To TRY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As an employer of labour, comprising grooms, gardeners, keepers, &c., I feel strongly that now would be an opportune time for those similarly eitnated to myself to consider and decide what course they shall pursue at the termination of the present war. Lord Kitchener's appeal has, I think, been on the whole well responded to by the classes mentioned above ; but is it not our duty, as employers, to see to it that those who from patriotic motives have enlisted, and in so doing have probably made considerable sacrifices, shall not be forgotten ? I would, therefore, suggest that, when employment again becomes normal, preference should be given to those seeking situations in these and kindred capacities who have joined his Majesty's colours at this time of the nation's need.—I am, Sir, [Unquestionably every good citizen who is an employer should make a resolve—a resolve that he will hold sacred —whenever possible to give a preference to men who have come forward to serve the country in her hour of peril. If the choice is between two men, one who went to the front and one who did not, then the man who volunteered must have the job. The reinstatement of men in their old jobs after the war goes, of course, without saying. It is universally admitted that this must be the rule. A man who breaks it must be a marked man, and dealt with very faith- fully.—ED. Spectator.]
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