STRIKE LEADER SCORNS THE SHIRKERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 181, 20 April 1918, Page 8

STRIKE LEADER SCORNS THE SHIRKERS

Mr. Stanley Bnrgess, chairman of the Sheffield Strike Committee, and one of the two local men arrested by the Government for the part they tooK in the engineers' strike last year, recently made a notable, speech on the shirkers. Speaking at a meeting of the Trades and Labour Council against a resolution protesting against tie proposed comb-out (says .the Sheffield correspondent of the "Daily Express ), he said: "It is damnable hypocrisy for organised workers to say that no more men should go into the Army, and yet to be willing to continue making munitions. If you are willing u> make munitions yon should be wiling to Iβ them. That would be playing the game: Are you prepared to send bojs of eighteen, men with • big famtlie.,. clerks unorganised farm labourers, and Sers iu the South of England to -o the fighting, and yet to say that men shall not go from the protected, trades? It is too late now to talk of stopping the war by holding up supplies. If you had intended that ymi should taw done it three and a half years ago, .instead of agreeing to the war and crying out now." He added that he was nremred to go into khaki to prevent Germany Wing dominant in Uie world.