Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 85, 7 November 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

HINTS T® RAILWAYMEN. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.10 a.in.) London. November 6. Mr J. H. Thomas, Labor member of the House of Commons, in urging the railwaymen to drop their prejudice against women railway workers, foreshadowed an announcement of a war bonus and a minimum wage for women.

GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. 1 ([Received 11.40 a.m.) London, November (i. Mr Gerald Massingham, in a letter to the newspaper Statist,' says that the editors of the London and provincial newspapers have been invited to a series of private conferences at which Ministers will address them under a seal of secrecy on the facts concerning the various War Departments. Mr Massingham says that secret conferences tend to turn the House of Peers into'a kind of secret society league, and that the Government executive has ample power of influencing the judgment of the nation apart from this subtle extension.