MINISTRY IN LABOUR …: Birthpangs of the New Act

THE LADS in St. James's Square are at it again. The saucy fellows! It is only a few months since they appointed as their Technical Adviser on Industrial Training Andrew Leslie Work, one‐time colonel, at no time industrial training specialist. By making this appointment they set in motion a sequence of events which could only reduce the whole thing to farce. The course of the ensuing events was inevitable and predictable. We are not being wise after the event: what we have to say now we stated personally to the Ministry before the appointment was officially made and on several occasions since.