UNIONISTS AND CONSCRIPTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 10 September 1915, Page 3

UNIONISTS AND CONSCRIPTION.

REASONS FOR OBJECTION. LONDON Sept 8. At the Trades Union Conference.Mr ( 01ynes, a Member of the House' of | Commons, said the voluntarism had re- | stilted in an army of almost three million men, mostly trade unionists. We | are not opposing conscription for reasons of cowardice, but because it is against the ingrained principles of British liberty and is an iii3fficie.it and wasteful system, involving a national upset. We want the democracy of Britain and Europe to triumph over Prussian militarism. Mr Smlllie said that the capitalist class urged conscription because they w,er e afraid that at the end of the jWar their wealth and ownership ruigfht' jhe seriously interfered with. If they w-ere as much afraid of the workers [as of a German invasion thay,ought to have given the workers better conditions long ago. Tfa.e rural wrokers carried a resolution protesting against the introduction of child labour into agriculture, and protesting against the employment, of women ereept where there wfl-s a shortage of labour, and then only at equal pay and for the war period. ' ,S ? A COPPER CONTRACT. LONDON Sept S. Judgment in tha Zinc Corporation cas e cabled on the 31st, decrees that the contract be dissolved as from the 4tfa August Before the King's Bench the Zinc Corporation asked for a dclaration thar. a contract made in April, 1914, to sell between three and four thousand tons of spelter to H'irsch and Son, of Haberstadt, be abrogated by the war. The defendants pleaded that the contractwas merely suspended during the war. Mr Govett, chairman of the Corporation, gave evidence that the total output of the world was oetween f 00,00(1 and one million tons, of which Germany refined 35,000 tons.