BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

LABOR PARTY'S ATTITUDE. WILL AID LOYALLY IN RECRUITING. Received Sept.lo, 10 p.m. 1 London,. Sept. 10. I The Trade Union Congress passed a resolution that with a view to the importance of the war issues to democracies, Congress approves of the Labor 'Party's co-operation in recruiting. An amendment urging that the Congress should first have obtained guarantees of adequate provision for disabled men and the dependents of those killed was defeated. Mr. G. H. Roberts, Labor 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. THE DAILY SNIFFLER. A CHANCE FOR TRADES UNIONISTS. Received Sept. 10, 10.30 p.m. London, Sept. 10. At the Labor Congress, Mr. lioyd George said he wished trades unionists would subject the Daily Mail to a shattering bombardment and, drop bombs upon the hard head of Lord Northcliffe. THE EMPIRE'S RESOURCES. CONCERTED ORGANISATION NEEDED. ! (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received Sept. 10, 6.40 p.m. London, Sept. 9. The Times, in a leading article, says that time has added to the urgency of our earlier appeal for deliberate and concerted effort to organise the resources of the Empire for war purposes. Canada is the only case where there has been any direct communication with Britain; the other dominions had no such fortune, and, as a result, though putting forth all their efforts to send trained men to Europe, they feel that their leaders know too little about our aims. Were the plans applied, if possible, simultaneously to other dominions, the policy which brought Sir Robert Borden to London will be solvent. All these hesitations and doubts are barriers to the fruitful intimacy of counsel and are now perplexing the leaders of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. FOR SPECIAL SERVICE. A. VOLUNTEER BATTALION ( ACCEPTED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received Sept. 10, G. 40 p.lll. London, Sept. 9. The War Office lias accepted in principle the offer of volunteer training corps to raise a battalion for special service in France. The terms of the work to be undertaken arc as yet unsettled. One thousand corps are available, representing 350,000 men. TRIALS OF THE JEWS. THE NEW MARTYRDOM. London, Sept. 9. Jewish soldiers who have returned from the front took part in the Jewish New Year services. Chief Rabbi Algato said the community had never been confronted with such a mass of calculated inhumanity and suffering as was nowexisting in the ranks of Israel in the eastern war zone. Thousands had been killed and millions reduced to penury. He was confident that in the new martyrdom of Israel they would acquit themselves as men. VICTORIA CROSS HERO. London, Sept. 9. Lieut. Forshaw, of Manchester, has been awarded the Victoria, Cross for conspicuous bravery 011 August 9, for holding an exposed corner of a vineyard at Gallipoli and bomb-throwing continuously for 41 hours.

TRADE UNION CONGRESS. ADDRESS BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE. JOOyOOO MORE fWOBKERS WANTED. . London, Sept. 9. Mr. IJoyd George received an ovation at the Trade Union Congress. He •aid: "I am grateful for the opportunity of unfolding the situation to you. You represent one of the most powerful forces in greeting the country's life. (With you victory is assured; without .you our cause is lost. I come here as the greatest employer of labor in the I am also a trade unionist. mYou pledged yourselves yesterday, as representatives of organised labor, to ■Msiit the Government in the successful prosecution of the war. lam sure you Jnettt it. I am here to take you, on i|he Government, at your Word. "The Var has resolved itself into ,a conflict between the mechanics of the .rdpectlve nations, and it is believed the .British workmen are the Ibetter of the ♦wo."' "The Government has established eixnational arsenals, and is constructing eleveb mote, and to work these, old and new, 200,000 more unskilled men and women'are wanted. The countiy :s , not doing its best. It iB entirely a labor problem. You can assist." .'■ A voice interjected: "So can the employers." 1 Sifr. Lloyd George: "I am not going .to spare the employers. (Cheers.) The machinery applicable to war material is not working night and day. Only 15 per' cent, of the machinery is working sfbt shifts. Turning out cannon, I rifles, and war material, with plenty] of labor, the factories would be oocu-1 pied continuqasly. - Think what ma-! terial could be supplied. It is a problem, not of destroying, but of saving the lives of young men. 'lf every skilled man is employed ( there will still never be enough labor for the task I have in hand. The Government is unalble to equip the army unlets the trade unions help in three directions. They must suspend for the war period all restrictions upon the best use of skilled labor by employing Unskilled men, under skilled superVision, for all work in which highly skiUed labor is not absolutely indispensable. -Secondly, they must svspend the practice of preventing men turning out as much work as their skill' and strength permit. Thirdly, these ' must be no ' stoppages in essential tnide?. Profits have been restricted so *• to bring practicably tile whole of the workshops employed on munitions under the Munitions Act. Those under the Act embrace 95 per cent, of tSie labor engaged In these industries." Lastly, be was going to ask unpleasant questions: "Had the other side of tfce bargain been kept!" It had been maintained honorably in many cases, but in far too many it had not been carried out. If the Government when trying to do its best for the gallant fellows in the field was hampered at every turn 'by, little technical objections it was impossible to do the work that the country demanded. Mentioning an instance of restricted output of vitally needed articles, he asked: "Will anyone defend that?" (Cries of "Xo!'') He had no more to say. That was exactly what he came for. Several questions were asked and answered, and Mr. Lloyd George was thanked 'for his attendance and speeds . A WAR OF MECHANICS. MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S APPEAL. Received Sept. 10, 10.20 p.m. ' London, Sept. 10. Mr. Lloyd George continued: 'T 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 stint and strife, through autumn, winter, and spring. Then came the terrible avalanche of shot and shell which broke the great Russian axmirs and drove them back. The German advance in Russia is a victory for German trade unions. It was not Generals 'Hindenburg and Mackensen, but the workmen who won it. The war resolves itself into a conflict between the mechanics of Austro-Germany and the mechanics of Britain and France, and the sooner we thoroughly understand this the quicker will be the ultimate victory. I believe the British workman is the better of he two if he chooses to put his back into it. At the present time we require eighty thousand more skilled men, in addition to 200,000 unskilled men and women. We are not trying to displace skilled men by unskilled." Mr. Lloyd George said:—"l was recently talking to Field-Marshal Sir John French, and he said he had never seen troops more fearless and contemptuous of death, more ready to face any odds, thin those he commanded. I here ask you to back them up. The Admiralty, War Office, and Munitions Department estimate that if workmen during the period of war suspended the custom of keeping down the output, but increased the output thirty per cent, in some places, and two hundred per cent, in ot&tn, that will make the difference between victory and defeat,?