The Meaning of "Munitions Work."
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We report elsewhere in this issue an important deci;ion o the.King's Bench Division, in the course of a judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Atkin, -Which decision has a direct bearing upon the construction of special war 'legislation in relation'tu commercial motors. The case .whfch we report, and with which the legal definitions that have been given are concerned, refers specifically to work on railway wagons, but there is no getting away from the fact that.this test case is available td serve as a precedent in ..respect Of motor. wagons.
We give the text of the judgment at length (page 164), and we deal there, in one of the introductory paragraphs, with the labour questions from which it arose. 11, is clear that possible. applications Of the judgment to commercial-motoring interests may 'go entirely beyOncl 'any 'such labour questions. -Manu with facturers and users who are in nowise Connected the war or war service appear to us to be liable to be • brought within the scope Of the. Munitions of War • this use Act, 1916, in that 'according to highest decision to date the vehicles which they are undoubtedly adapted for use in war in pendently of, their not being intended—at, any time up to the present—for such use.