His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, was expelled last week by the union from which he recently and jocularly obtained a card proclaiming him to be a bricklayer (TIME, Oct. 29).
Such drastic action was taken not lightly, but after hours of anxious wrangling by the Executive Committee of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trades' Workers. In its final and awful form the order of expulsion against whimsical Mr. Churchill charged that "he has never laid bricks, except as a pastime on his own estate, and furthermore he does not intend to earn...
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