A PLEA FOR UNITY

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 9

A PLEA FOR UNITY

TO THE EDITOR.

| Sir, —We read, about some unionists striking or working slow at a time like this. ■ Poor, deluded victims! Do they forget the glorious vision held up to their, eyes before the war : of Gerjnan Socialists downing tools' and' refusing to fight, so stopping any war with their friends? Have they forgotten how eagerly these same men entered the war to kill and murder their deluded victims? Do these 'unionists forget,how England, believing these friends of kultur, refrained from ■increasing the. Army and Navy, and so was caught napping by those who preferred such brotherly love? Who should strike? If anybody, it should be the man in khaki—hard feed, living in mud and water, nerve-racked every hour of the day, smacked, mangled, and killed, for 5s or. 6s a day, fighting to protect this country. All the men in the trenches | ask is not a rise in pay, not a war bonus, but whole-hearted support in men and material; they willingly put up -with hardship and pain, if only they can defeat the enemies of their homes and Empire. They want no go-slow or shirker there. I speak strongly and feel strongly at the attitude of certain unionists, when so many brave men—my own son included— sacrificed their lives under conditions never known before. The Labour leaders at Home are unanimous in their desire that every ounce ■ of i brain and muscle should be willingly put into the struggle, and so bring a speedy victory. Will not our own men .here do .the., same, and settle our differences after the war among ourselves?—l am, etc.,' A AVORKING MAN. ' 21st February. - ' ,'.'/,' ■.■;'*