Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 11, 11 September 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

PENALTY OF ESPIONAGE. DEATH SENTENCE CARRIED OUT United Press Association. (Received 0.-15,ia.m.) London, .September 10. Official. —A man wild was court-mar-tialled at Loudon for espionage and sentenced to death was executed today. TRADE UNION. THE COST OF LIVING PROBLEM. WOMEN’S WORK AND PAY. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, September 10.

The Trade Union Congress protested against the rise in the dost ol livingdue to private speculation, and urged the Government to control the supplies of necessaries, and to appoint a committee. including Labor representatives, to fix the retail prices. The Congress urged women employed m the war services to join the Trade Unions and demand equal pay tor equal work. - Mr Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., conveyed to the CongrdsSifKiiertial gi)£et'ings on behalf of the Parliamentary Labor Party, and said that they all agreed it was every citizen’s duty to uphold the national iVornM-.* jAt the present moment the nation demanded the best they could do. . He concluded by appealing to the Congress to regard any present difference merely as transitory, and as leading- to greater mutual respect and loyalty. LLOYD GEORGE'S SPEECH. London. September 10. Mr Lloyd George said: “I want you to clearly Understand the problem whereto you must set your minds, in order to equip our armies in the coming months to enable them to crack the way through to victory. German workmen worked quietly and persistently. without stiqt apd,s|T)^ J autumn, winter, ami spring. Then came the terrible avalanche of shot and shell which''broke 1 the great Russian armies, and ,dyoye r jJiem back. The Gcrn[aij iplvpuicejiq'Russia is, a(uictorj* for German, Lratlej nnjons. It was not Generals Himtenhurg and Mackensen, but the workmen who won it. Thfe war resolves itsell into a conflict between the mechanics of Anstro-Gei-many amjl pf {<)iritaia and France, and the sooner ‘we ‘thoroughly, understand .fliis/i the' 1 quidke - will be the ultimate victory. I heliev ; the British workman is the better of the two if he chooses to put his hack into it. At the present time*we require eighty thpusgnd .more, skilled..men, iq addition to 200,000 unskilled men ami women. We are not trying displace skilled, M r Lloyd; CSeprge re " cently taking ,to Sit* John French, and he said he had neveij seen troops more fearless and con? temptnons of death, more ready to face any odds, than those he com-* nqnidpd; J .hew ask ypiujto hqck them iij). The Admiralty, War Office, and Munitions Department estimate that M (luring |tlie {period of |\\i i' Cnispemfccl* the cinstofn •of* keeping* down’ the output, but increased the output thirty |')hli fceift, in s some* places, "-a'hd two ,hundred per cent, in others, that will’make the difference between victorv and defeat.”

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. Unitkd Press Association. London, September 10. Tile Trade Union Congress passed a resolution that with a view to the importance of the wiU" js>*u^s ; . to de.nipLabor Party’s co-operation .ini recruitbig. f .. . i An amendment urging that the Congress should first hqyegohtained guarantees of adequate .pyiiyisjofi, fqr disabled men and the dependents oi those killed was defeated. Mr (I. H.' Roberts, J>ohor M.P., said the party had frequently discussed recruiting favoring voluntaryism, but an unprecedented situation had arisen, demanding more recruits. The majority of the party had accepted -Mr Asquith’s invitation to co-operate in a national recruiting campaign, and the minority, when pressed for their alternative, declared for conscription. Mr Seddon announced that Mr Asquith,,in acknowledging the anti-con-scription resolution, had promised it the most careful consideration. Mr Lloyd George said he wished trades unionists would subject the Daily Mail to a shattering bombardment and rop bombs upon the hard head of Lord Northcliffe. RECENT ZEPPELIN RAID. TOTAL DEATH LIST 17. j H eeci yejj, 11.20 fl. m.) Imu don, September 10. Official: Regarding, the Zeppelins 5 raid of the 7th, .the bodies of the three were found missing. ILmr seriouslv injured have died, 'flu* total deaths ai;e : nVe moil, six women, and six children.