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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 10, 22 December 1911, Page 6

Some anxiety was manifested by ne city fathers last evening, says /ednesday’s Wellington “Post,” iien.- an- application was made- that ■3'i‘mission lie granted to allow entlemen to go inside ladies’ baths. ■What for?” asked Cr. Shiivtcliffe. lie Town Clerk explained that the entlemen were judges of ladies’ swimdug races. “Is this the thin edge of lie wedge, foi-imixed bathing?” asked /r. .Godbsr, with some show of alarm. Are the ladies agreeable?” asked hv'Shirtcliffe. The Town Clerk: They /ant the judges there. The pormision sought was granted. Quite a sensation has been caused a , labour circles by deternr’ned signs <f revolt on'the part of one of the lost generous and most considerate f British 'employers (writes' a Lonon correspondent). Lord Ashton's nine is 'Miniacted with ( very charity, oth public and private in Lancashire, lis public benefactions to Lancaster, minding a public park, a municipal abiding, and a statue of Queen Vicoria, extend to perhaps half a milion pounds, and he has also spent ally half a million on philanthropic bjects. During the recent f Likes, /hen many industries had to close . own for want of raw material or ml, he shut down his famous linonun factory, but continued paying his ■en, who had taken no part in the trike. But the return he got for all bis consideration has so disgusted him bat he lias issued a drastic ultimatum o his men, warning all who are not •atisfied to go, elsewhere, as “in inure when trade is bad wo shall only -;eep men whom we regard as friendly ■nd loyal to their employer, who for marly half a century has upheld the ;ause of the working classes. It is vith sorrow that we are compelled to nake this statement, hut the present state of things is so intolerable that wo are determined to put a stop to it, 10 matter at what cost.”