MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE TRADES UNIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 January 1918, Page 5

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AND THE TRADES UNIONS

SECKET SESSION ON THE MAN-POWER BILL ' TROTSKY AND THE GERMANS ANOTHER ARGUMENT AT ■ BREST LITOVSK For some reason the war dispatches to-day are very light. Tho chief item of inters.; i is Mr. Lloyd George's spirited appeal to the British trades unions to fight on. "Go on. or go under!" is his slogan. A Gerrmtn peace, he declares, would be dictated from the cannon's mouth, ana no hope could possibly he expected of a peacemission by misguided pacifists to Berlin. A secret session of the British Parliament was suddenly unexpectedly called by the action of Mr. J. M. Kogge, 11.P., in raising the question of the adequacy of the draft—4so,oo0 —which the Government proposed to call Tip under the Man-Power Bill. In sncret session the situation was explained to the House, the Bill was read a second time, and subsequently sent on to Committee. Disaffection is said to he spreading in the Austro-German armies, where men are deserting by the thousand. The people in the townships are said to be feeling the pinch in real earnest now. Tho situation in Russia at present, says the "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent, in effect amounts to a proposition of the frying-pan and the firo description. Better the known unpleasantnesses of the Bolsheviki regime than tho'unknown and intensified terrors of some other factional tyranny.