28 JUNE 1940, Page 14

EARNINGS OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

SIR,—My attention has just been directed to your suggestion that conscientious objectors might well be asked to hand over to some good cause such as the Red Cross any excess of their earnings over what they would have drawn as pay and allowances in the Army. It will interest you to learn of a case in which an applicant before the North-Western tribunal was registered as a conscientious objector on condition that he handed to the St. John Ambulance Brigade the difference between his wage and the average wage of an agricultural worker. The objector accepted the decision willingly, the Brigade refused the tainted money, and the Minister of Labour successfully appealed against the decision on the grounds that the order was ultra