KITCHENER'S WAY.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15756, 24 November 1916, Page 5

KITCHENER'S WAY.

AN APPEAL THAT SAVED A STRIKE. An interesting story of a meeting •with Lord Kitchener was related at Liverpool -last month by Mr James Sexton, general secretary of the Dockers'" Union. Mt was presented by Lord Derby -with a framed photograph of Lord Kitchener's appeal to the dockers, the original of which Mr Sexton gave to the Red Cross Society, who sold it for £500. In making the presentation, Lord Derby said that at "Ehe time of Lord ; Kitchener's visit to Liverpool there "were i threats of trouble at the docks. Lord ] Kitchener felt that the reason for this i was that the men did not realise bow i much their work contributed not only to i the success, but even to the safety, of j our Army in France. He therefore i asked that Mr Sexton should come and < talk the matter over -with him at i Knowsley, and after that talk the letter j ■was written. It was his appeal to the men, an appeal which he. Lord Derby, c -waa glad to say had been loyally ao- 1 ceded to. c Mr Sexton said be conld picture in t his mind's eye the stern soldier, -who j was not only a soldier, and a man. >Nt I a kindly, courteous English gentleman, e and his —the speaker's—great regret fi was that Lord Kitchener had not been s spared to see some of the fruits of his t enormous labour. Lord Kitchener re- f3 cognised the value of organisation in a both a military and industrial sense, so v long as it was properly used, and one t comment he made to him v -was that the p future of this or any other nation de-" T pended on the physical condition of ite * people. He said that if be was spared in after the war, one of the things he f would lay himself out to remedy was a that particular blot on our social life, "u