CARE FOR THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 5

CARE FOR THOSE WE LEAVE BEHIND

CONDITION OF MARRIED ENLISTMENTS. By Teleerarh—Pi'esa Assoniatlon—Copyright x London, March 19. Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P. (organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railwa-y Servants), addressing a meeting of railwaymen at Chester, Baid tlip only solution of the married men's grievances was a bold Government statement that if they were required to fight for others' homes' the Govern ment would protect theirs. Mere talk about a moratorium was only playing with the question. If the country was worth fighting for, the soldiers had a right to expect the Government to care for those loft behind. (Rec. March 20, 9.25 p.m.) London, March 19. "The agitators for the extension of conscription are weakening our cause, encouraging our enemies, attempting to undermine the Government, and create an impression that we are governed by twenty-three brainless individuals. These agitators have secured'the dominion of militarism in a limited form, but if they think it easy to extend its vicious principle, they tvill quickly know that we who have fought the conscription of the unmarried men will be reinforced by many who now see what a hollow fraud and sham tho whole business was."