_To the Editor of the Daily Gazette._
SIR,--My attention has been drawn to an attack made by
Captain GRICE-HUTCHINSON on a very respectable member of the
National Society of Amalgamated Brassworkers, Mr. IKE WARD.
In your yesterday's issue Captain GRICE-HUTCHINSON is
reported to have said: "The last authentic account he had of Mr.
IKE WARD was that he was 'bones' in some nigger troupe on
the sands of Scarborough." Mr. WARD has been for some time
engaged as an organiser, and is a member of the Executive of the
Railway Workers' Union, has never been in a nigger troupe on the sands
of Scarborough or anywhere else.
As the statement is calculated to damage the reputation of my friend
Mr. WARD, I am sure that the candidate for Aston will at
once either give his authority for the damaging statement or withdraw
the aspersions on the character of a respected labour leader.--Yours
faithfully,