BROTHERHOOD CONFERENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 7

BROTHERHOOD CONFERENCE.

Wm> OEOEGE ON SQCIW ;■!, PROBLEMS. A NEW BRITAIN TO ARISE, £y Telegraph.—Press Aisn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 17. Mr. Iloyd George, speaking in the City Temple at the International Brotherhood Congress, dealt with social problems arising from the war. He said there were many men who had not realised that a great tidal wave had swept BWay land marks. Many phases of the old order had gone for ever and the world was rioher and safer for their disappearance. Meanwhile they had trebled the electorate, changed the hours of labor, and altered the nation's attitude towards labor. To deal with similar great problems other great changes were inevitable. Slums must go. He hoped greater armaments would disappear, not only in Germany; otherwise millions of gallant men had bled in vain. He also hoped the long-drawn-out and wretched misunderstanding with Ireland would disappear, and a new Britain arise freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, poverty, and squalor. Mr. Lloyd George, concluding, used the idea of fair play to sum up the new spirit wanted to revolutionise the world. He said the League of Nations was as attempt to substitute fair play for force. Germany's departure from fair play had a terrible retribution and would be a conspicuous warning 'to all peoples. There must also be fair play between capital and labor. If labor sought to exercise power without reference to the resources of each individual Industry It would bring ruin to hundreds of thousands of citizens. Neither employer nor laborer had the Tight, without reference to the community, to say "Am I my brother's keener?" This was the policy | of Cain to brotherhood.