MEN OF THE HOUR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 83, 21 November 1911, Page 2

MEN OF THE HOUR.

(To the Editor, “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —A low days ago there appear'd in your paper an article in which this statement was made: “The church is too respectable, and a working man ■ouhl not afford to belong to many oi (horn.” And of course there was the usual storm of indignation that such, rank heresy should ho propounded hy the reverend gentleman. Vdo ought to he truly thankful for the rcry kind interest that our clerical Irionds are taking in our interests just at present, and ask ourselros wny this sudden change r* To you, who are toilers. I would ask yon to think calmly and without heat how far in the past have their interests and yours

gone P How often have you had their assistance to help you to fight against oppression, to help you to better your working condition, to assist you to make life a little easier for the weary wayfarer who has fallen in life’s battle ; to help you to get the best of what is in life? And when your battle is over and you have laid down the tools for good, how is it then ? Just about this time every third year the same tiling occurs, and J say we arc justly entitled to ask why this sudden change. We arc entitled to form our own opinion, and to weigh them in the scales of the past, and I honestly think you can come to but one conclusion, and "that is their way is not our way; that on the 7th of December next they will lie arrayed hard and strongly against you; no stone will be left unturned to make your battle hard, because, remember, you are in very truth, “The ' Man of the Hour.”' Amongst them are many noble men and women, also many to whom the name of Labour is gall and wormwood, and as a body we must deal with them. Don’t forget, you Toilers, that in your hands lies the balance of power. You are a poAver In this fair land of ours, and 1 feel sure that you can well afford to be without the gentlemen avlio are only now aware of our existence. Wako up, think, and act, you are the “Men of the Hour.”—l am, etc., ONE OF THEM. Stratford, Nov. 19th, 1911.