RECRUITING AT HOME INADEQUATE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2582, 2 October 1915, Page 5

RECRUITING AT HOME INADEQUATE

LORD KITCHENER FAVOURS THE MILITIA : BALLOT ■ — J J ißsiTeleßrapt—P«js A6sooia,tdon—OosyrigM •: '■mil t> o • . ~ -, ' , t-ontfon, 'September "30.: The Press Bureau states: Mr. Arthur Henderson lias announced that having heard Lord Kitchener's and Mr; Asquith's- statements-of the military position on Tuesday to the Joint labour Conference with tie Parliamentary Labour Party, he to-day _ declared the belief that-recruits for the Army and Navy and the war factories can be obtained by voluntary methods. • ■ The conference has pledged itself to assist the Government, and decided to organise a special labour recruiting campaign throughout the United Knur, dom. ' " The conference suggested that recruiting would be more successful if thd Government would announce the results achieved, the. future needs, and also to insist on employers not preventing workers enlisting.

' LABOUR-RECItUITI'NG CAMPAIGN ORGANISED. ' (Rec. October l ; 8.10 p.m.) " London, September 30. r lho 'Manchester Guardian" states that Lord Kitchener, in addressing th§ Labour Conference on the 28th, said lio preferred the voluntary system, but tho present- rate of recruiting was inadequate. There was no question' o£ raising an army of a required size; that had boen done already. The problem was to-fill the gaps./ His own plan, which had not yet been submitted to Cabinet, was the militia ballot, by which overy district would furnish it-3 quota, voluntarily if possible, otherwise by ballot. After hearing Mr. Asquith, the conference decided- to organise V purely Labour campaign of recruiting. ! N : •