Does the Workman at Home Know ?

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 June 1915, Page 4

Does the Workman at Home Know ?

jlo.it, in tlio writers rroui the front have something to say aOo'.it the laLour troubles in England. In a letter I'roiii a captain of the Lincolnshire It-o-giniour- there occur tiicre passages: iMore and more does one see that every hour that is wasted by our ieiknvworkers at home prolongs ohis struggle Do you imagine that ttie working man oi the Old Country realises this at all H Do you imagine for one instant that lie has thought over the matter or realises that when, perhaps, he is abstaining from work his brother, mayibe, was lacing death and worse at that very minute:' Oi' courso, the workman, wo know, isn't, all to blame. Wt all admit, Ithink, that he is entitled to «i lair return ior his labour, and that he does not always get it we know. But is now the time for adjusting these tilings? Askhim if he thinks all those out here are getting a tair return, for their labour? Ask him what-he would think of us here if we cca3 id work a 'd what would happen to us if .we aid? And, lastly, ask him what would happen to him and those near and dear to him? We have seen what the German can do; we know what atrocities ho can Commit, and does anyone not know that if iiis atrocities' were bad m -Belgium they would he appalling in England? Wfc have got to strike at Germany and stamp out her desire lor military despotism. Any strike on the part of workers at home is for Germany, and aids her to swallow freedom. I hope the time is not far distnat when the fruits of the hustling tactics will manifest themselves. Meanwhile, send on the men and the material, and don't let it bo said that those left in the Old Country delayed the end.— London Times.