"A SEA OF LABOUR TROUBLES."

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15218, 4 March 1915, Page 7

"A SEA OF LABOUR TROUBLES."

MORE OF Mil" LLOYD GEORGE'S

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("Time*" and "Sydney Sun" Service.)

LONDON. March 2. 'The Times." in a loading article, headed "A Chequered Budget." says that the new.-, from tho industrial centres reveals » sea of labour troubles. They are all about nionev a little more, wages, a little less profit. It would be sordid enough at all times, but tho carrying on of such differences now is a crime which is equally stupid and base. To the*e people the war appears merely as 'something in the newspapers.' " The leader concludes: "Wo believe, that all the employers and employed would settle their differences in such a way as to avoid the cessation of work if they really appreciated the needs of the hour."'

Mr Llotd George, in his speech nt Banker, said he wn.s never doubtful <k to the length and seriousness of the war. Britain had raised the largest voluntary army which had ever been enrolled in any country in any century. It would bo larger if she produced an array proportionate to her ;-opulation, like France and Germany. It would then be 3.-500,000 from 'Britain and 1.200,000 from the colonies. Two millions of the manhood of Britain had already made- a tender of their lives for their country. Then certainly tho rest of tho nation ought not to gnidqo its sharo in inconvenience caused by the war.

"We ought." the Chancellor continued, "to requisition every man who handles metal. AVc have every reason for confidence, but we have none for complacency. Ido not say that if the Allies lose the Kaiser would be enthroned in Enpland. and we would hear the noisy traniD of the Roosc-sten in tlio cities of the Empire, but Russia would bo trampled upon. France would he broken. Britain would be disarmed, and America could not .nrotect us. She would have enough to do then to defend her own interests."