THE COMPULSION BILL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 5

THE COMPULSION BILL

RAILWAYMEN'S ATTITUDE I LABOUR URGED SOLIDLY TO '! OPPOSE IT . j By Telegraph—Ptoes jteoofetion—Copyright ] (Rec. January 15, 3.45 p.m.) j London, January 14. Tho Railwayman 1 s Executive lias adopted a resolution, urging Labour.unitedly to oppose tho Compulsion Bill, as involving the confiscation of men's lives, and the leaving of the nation's i material resources in the liands of tho ! privileged, classes. "Tho number of j eligible single men who have not been j attested is not sufficient to affect the j issue of the war, and Mr. Asquith's ■ plodgs without consulting the electors ; does not bind the manhood of the country: Unless tho Government is prepar- .! Ed to confiscate wealth we will resist tho ' confiscation of men to the utmost." ■ j A REBUKE TO THE ACITATORS. j FRENCH WRITER'S COMMENT. • ! (Rec. January 15, 3.45 p.m.) i Paris, January 14. -i M. Gustav Herve, in a signifisant I article entitled "La Victoire," comment- ! ing on the British Compulsion Bill, says: .'! "A few months hence Britain's clenched j fist descends on the skull of the German, :■ the colossus of Prussianism will be van- ; quished, but on tho day of victory we j will not fail to tell certain British So- j cialists and Labour leaders that if we were not beaten it was not their fault."