Great Britain.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 17, 25 April 1916, Page 6

Great Britain.

COTTON-SPINNERS BAUDOT ON STRIKE PROBLEM. [USTTHD T*BEBB AfISOOIATTON.] (Received 9.5 a.m.) , London, April 24. The Operative Association of Cotton Spinners, Lancashire, afe-.l'boJlott• ng whether to strike for a ten per cent, advance in wages. WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE; SOCIETY LADIES PLOUGH THE FIELDS* . (Received 8.45 a.m.) London, April 24. An increasing number of women, are assisting in agriculture. The Marchioness of Londonderry and the Countess of Feverhmn have joined. The latter has been ploughing.

ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT.

(Received 10.15 a.m.) London, April 24

The Times says; Nearly nil the troubles, of Mr AsouithV administration..has sprung from wont of caneo|f:; tlhe K,Order-ih-Cohncil' m which bo now seeks refuge is to cloud everything in deeper mystery. The Daily Telegraph says; In the attempt to destroy the Government, the campaign of invective has been carried to the extreme. The paper hopes that the Government will firmly hold to the resolution to maintain the secrecy of the Cabinet, but if,Ministers are to fetter writers and speakers, they must keep a rigid guard on their writ expressions. The Daily Mail says; The Order-in-Council means that the Premier will have no hope of inducing Ministers holding their tongues. If there is any Cabinet leakage, it must be due to indiscretions of talkative ministers. INDEPENDENT l-ABOR. PROTEST AGAINST WAR OF ADVENTURE. LABOR AND THE WAR. (Received 8.15 a.id.) London, April 21. At the Independent Labor Party Party conference at Newcastle, four hundred were delegates. Mr Jowett, the president, declared that, the party refused to assist the Government in a war :*of adventure, which was bound to he disastrous whatever the result 1 .of the military operations was. They (protested’ against the men being compelled to fight, whether or not they believed in the justice of the war. He predicted that the war would bo followed by industrial strife if skilled workers were dragged down to the level of unskilleds, and women’s labor cheapened man’s, or if the capitalists were so 'enriched that the workers ,p-ere weaker than before the war.