THE AUSTRALIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2464, 5 October 1914, Page 2

THE AUSTRALIANS.

A LESSON IN LOYALTY

4i 11 Sydney, October 4. At the annual Eight-Hour* Day celebration dinner, the speeches were marked by much patriotic fervour. .Ihe Hon. A. Fisher, Federal Premier, declared that England was hghting the battle of humanity, for the right oi little nations lo 'live. Australians would give the utmost shred of then* substance to assist. He trusted they would deal justly with tho Germans. They must remember that, industrial Germany was the victim of Prussian military tyranny. He hoped a court <*f international arbitration would be established to try to punish breakers of international law. Ihe financial difficulties of Australia were very great, but the Government would do nothing aB such a time as this to embarrass people more than it could help. Mr O'Brien, President of the Trades and Labour Council, said when useless labour was eliminated, a- shorter day than eight hours would be possible, and the world's progress to prosperity would ho still faster. Sir Gerald Strickland, Governor of New South Wales, declared that he had learned to jespect the Labour movement in a manner which he hoped, when he returned Home, would add to his usefulness to the King and the Empire.