Snobs

The leveling drive of British Socialism is not directed at the upper classes alone. Last week a close observer of the British scene wrote feelingly: "There is the idea which persists in some quarters that a working-class boy who makes his way to the university and enters one of the professions, or a craftsman who becomes a manager, or even a foreman, has somehow deserted his mates.

"The fact is that industry will suffer just as much as the individual if, out of a mistaken sense of comradeship, he does not use his talents to the full." Trade unionists have demanded that some of their men be appointed to the boards of nationalized industries, then "cold-shouldered the trade union members and treated them as if they had gone over to the enemy."

The observer who wrote this is a policeman's son and onetime grocer's clerk who became Deputy Prime Minister--Herbert Morrison.

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