HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 305, 20 September 1919, Page 7

HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER

MR. LLOYD GEORGE ON AFTER-WAR . SOCIAL PROBLEMS APPEAL FOR FAIR PLAY Br Telegraph—l'ress Aaßociationr-OonyriEh* London, September 17. Mr. Llovd'Geoi'ge, speaking in the City Temnlo at the International Brotherhood Congress, dealt with social problems arts--im: out of the war. 'i'liere were men, he said, who did not realise that: a great till ill wave had swopt away tho landmark-?; Jind Hmt many phases of tho old order had v gone.for-ever. Tho world was richer and safer for their disiip;' Wnrahce. Meanwhile, the electorate had been trebled; the. hours of labour had been altered; tho attitude of tho nation towards Labour and similar .problems had been'" altered. Other great eluinjics were inevitable. Slums must go. He hoped that groat armaments would disappear, and not only jii Germany. Otherwise millions ot gallant men would have bled in vain. Ho also hoped the long-drawn, wretched misunderstanding over Ireland .would disappear. Ho was looking'jforward to seeing waste disappear, and a new Britain arise, freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, pnvertv, and squalor. Mr Lloyd George, in concluding, used tho idea of fair play to sum up the now spirit that was wanted to revolutionise the world. He said the formation of tho Leasuc of Nations was an attempt to substitute fair play for force. Germany's (leoarture from fair play had had a terrible retribution, and it would be a conspicuous warning to all peoples. There must also be fair play between Capital and Labour. If Labour sought to exercise its nowcr without reference to tho resources of each individual industry, it would bring ruin to hundreds of thousands of citizens. Neither employer nor labourer had the right, without reference to the community, to say. ' Am 1 my brother's keeper ?" It was the policy of Cain to his brotherhood.—Aits.-N. A. Cablo Assn.