LABOUR AND THE – WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4964, 3 September 1918, Page 5

LABOUR AND THE - WAR

MR. LLOYO-CEORCE’S IF«SPORT-

ANT STATEMENT

VICTORY MEANS MOST v 3 THE WORKER.

A SIGNIFICANT STATE GF

AFFAIRS

Ueutcr's Telegrams. LONDON, .Vent. 1. .Mr Lloyd-George, speaking at a Government luncheon to Ah Bumpers, referring to Labour’s part in the war, said victory meant more to those who had to get bread by the sweat ol their brow than to any other class. It was significant that all genuine leaders of Labour in Allied countries were convinced that victorv was essential to what they have h-a championing all their lives. German Labour was- becoming more and mere convinced it could never achieve its emancipation without overthrowing Prussian militarism. Each German election showed that that force was growing. We are achieving bv the wax not merely security to the world against the menace of Prussian militarism, but the emancipation of German Labour from the bondage it endured.

LABOR DAY MESSAGE.

‘■'JOIN HANDS AND LEAD THE WORLD.”

SPLENDID APPEAL BV I : DENT WILSON.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Acscciatkn. NEW YORK, Sent. 1. President Wilson lias issued a Labour Day -message. After reviewing the German aims and method?., he says; “The world cannot be sale. and men’s lives secure, or their rights asserted, so long as Governments like those which drew Austria and Germany into the war are permitted to control the destines el uteri and nations. It is a war it. uhmb industry must sustain. An army of laborers at Home is ns essmmnrt as fighters in battle. To fan to win would imperil everything Hym Labour has striven for and y-mJ dear since freedom first was im.J. Let us make this dav a tion in which we shall devoir cn.-~ selves, without pause or km::., to setting our country and the wnc.e world free. The nation is oi_ a single mind in taking counsel -y 1 special class, serving no _pr,» aL*. jti single interest. We realise as -e have never realised before tnat ■-■c see our comrades, dependant cn.o.to another, irresistible, wnen UN powerless when united. . S'j hands and lead the worm to a n-.. and better day.” . {rT , Australian and N-* Ai.-ac. (Received Sept. z. 11 p.m.j WASHES' GTON ~ bent. 1. President Wilson added ; ‘ ••As President I te 1 .organised Labour that every tool is y pon wliich if abandoned iwd * - “Ar the rifles useless in trance.. war is as much a wormnien — -.s as a soldier’s war-. I. he the front know this is.so .acknowledge steels their They are Crusaders. LABOR’S PEACE AIMS, AIR HENDERSON BECOMIXG A TORE MODERATE.

• HUN NATION WILL Be DISILLUSIONED. ’ LONDON. Sept, Air Henderson, addressing , yj-y Labour Conference at , admitted going too rai in t -;-,A T . at Northampton, in the German Socialist ulajoiry myprepared to disc-uss P oa ; :e ' -At, basis of Labors principle,. --- was bitterly disappointed. . tie yyy ded that- Labour’s iov was not a compromise wiy. > yyman militarists hut was inspires, -m a desire to win the war and democracy. -T ,; * * cor^German Government would to nelled to yield to the combined fure of the Allied the deceived Gennaii na io . be disillusioned. Labour desi-eu y-c tore for ideals not smashing and a peace dictated at —- point. -