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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 2

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QUESTIONS OF CONSCRIPTION AND MUNITIONS.

London Times—Sydney Sun Services,

(Received June 1, 8 a.m.) London, May 31. The Times declares that evidence is accumulating on all sides proving that the country requires an early declaration for national service, followed by instant action by the new Government. This is the only remedy for unfair methods of recruiting and the deficiency of munitions. Labour disputes arc depressing, and there is a sense of national'importance at a time when every.man and woman is needed. A special correspondent, dealing with the question of munitions, says the drinking is the worst on the Clyde, and is an appreciable evil on the Tyne. In the Clyde workshops the correspondent saw a batch of mon turned out by the foreman too drimk to work. They had brought tlie spirits into the workshop. The unusually large wages was the principal cause of the evil.

An advocate of the prohibition of spirits anions such workmen remarks that many of the men arc overworked, are subject to a continuous strain, and are in danger of a breakdown.