A SON'S APPEAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 6

A SON'S APPEAL

Here are two gratifying declarations made during tlio discussions at the Trade Union Congress at Bristol:— Mr. John Hodge, M.P., chairman of tlse Labour Party, dealt the' pacifists a knock-down blow when, speaking with deliberation and intensity, lie said: "The men who talk peace to-day are traitors to their own country."

Perhaps nothing touched tlio .hearts of these Tather stolid Labour delegates so much as a few words spoken by an elderly Durham minor, Mr. Robson. "There's a man sitting over there," said _ho,' "who came with me to a meeting that had to. decide about a strike, and he had a letter in his pocket from his son in the trenches, who said, 'Father, if you give us a chance we can whack them.' "

That word "Father.'" coming from tlio lad in the trenches, seemed to clutch tho congress by its heart-strings. Thero was a groat shout of cheers from GOO men that answered all tho peace cranks 1 ' miserable little arguments.