RECRUITING IS AHEAD OF EQUIPMENT
Dealing with recruiting and the numbers raised on a voluntary basis, which were far ahead of the available equipment, Mr. Lloyd George said it would be a proud thing to be able to say at the end of the wai' that, without compulsion, we had done something that no other country had ever done. (Cheers.) "We were the worst organised nation in the world for this war. I am not sorry for that, because it shall be our defence in history that when this war came on we were not prepared for it. It shall be judged as a proof that we were innocent of any aggressive intentions. The> t proof lies in the fact that we did not'prepare." A PLEDGE OF SUPPORT "The nation needs all the machinery and all the skill available to turn out munitions and equipment. Both employer and worker must be subject to complete State, control. The latter's control must be for the benefit of the State, not for increasing the profits of any industrial or private organisation. We must increase the mobility of labour, and have a greater subordination of labour to the same control. " The workers passed a resolution pledging support for the effort* to increase thei output of munitions.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 5
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