e
was right. Had he invited Mackenzie King he would have got a speech
with more in it about the philosophy of Industry and Humanity, and
perhaps more to the point in the practical study of the labour
question. By inviting the Premier, Moore paid respect to government.
Even Mr. Crerar might have made a more sympathetic speech. But in the
Moore philosophy there is no radical connection between Crerar and
Labour. In the organization of the Drury coalition between Labour and
the Farm he can see one way of getting the rights of each incorporated
into legislation.

But the Government is the final thing. Statesmanship is bigger than
programmes painted on the clouds. There's a vast deal to be done yet
in this country for the enfranchisement of labour in industry as it is
franchised in government. There are pig-headed Tories of industry who
will have to illustrate tombstones before some of the old spirit of
repression of labour will die out in the nation. But the die-hards are
fewer every year. Some wages had to come down to get everything else
down. But we believe also, as Moore probably does, that wages which
are the chief item of cost in all commodities ought to be as high as
production will stand and pay reasonable profits on investment; that
collective bargaining is sound as applied to individual industries, but
a form of bigoted tyranny when extended to the whole group or to the
sympathetic strike; and that the slogan, "Union is Strength", does not
mean levelling efficiency to the lowest common denominator.

The day may come in the recorded minutes of Trades and Labour
Congresses in Canada when a man of broader and more constructive vision
may be needed to build the brotherhood out into labour statesmanship.
But for the past few years, and for the few to come, Canadian labour
and common weal may well arise to thank Tom Moore, who, when the rapids
were near and the rocks were under the rapids, kept his craft rowing
into safe water. Tom Moore of Ireland was a poet. Tom Moore of Canada
is not. The play on the names is only an accident. The parallel
holds. May we never again need such a man in this country to be sure
that labour does not run us all on the rocks under the Red rapids.

A MAN WITHOUT A PUBLIC

SIR WILLIAM MACKENZIE

A few years ago, before Stefansson reported on the blond Eskimos, the
first Eskimo movie ever taken was shown in Toronto to a small audience
who waited an hour for the film,