NATIONAL SERVICE
AN APPEAL TO ALL CLASSES NEUTRALS SEE ENGLAND DIVIDED. (Received October 18, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, 17th October. Mr. J. H. Thomas, organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, addressing the Railwaymen's Union, Sheffield section, said that the newspapers had persistently demanded conscription. They had sought Lord Kitchener's head, then Mr. Asquith's, now Sir Edward Grey's. If the British foreign policy was a failure, it was becauso the neutrals were led into the belief that England was divided against herself. The workers must not allow their fathers, sons, and brothers to sacrifice their lives vainly to gratify an unscrupulous gang which was endeavouring to undermine national confidence. He had received a letter from Lord Derby, stating that he was in favour of national service, but with the cordial co-operation of all political parties, including the conscriptionists, he hoped for the success of the new voluntary effort. Mr. Thomas added that if the State took the workmen's labour it took his only capital. It must take also the rich man's weatlh. If everbody gave all, the result would be the breaking down of the curse of militarism by voluntary recognition of the obligations of 'all to the State.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 8
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200NATIONAL SERVICE Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 93, 18 October 1915, Page 8
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