MR LLOYD GEORGE AND MR GOMPERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 27 September 1918, Page 6

MR LLOYD GEORGE AND MR GOMPERS.

FIGHTING THE SAME BATTLE

LONDON, Sep. 4. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at a. Government luncheon at the Carlton Hotel to Mr Sam Gompers (president of the American Federation of Labor), at'which Mr Barnes, a member of the War Cabinet, presided, and a large and distinguished company, including Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, were present, said that Mr Gompers and he had very largely the same ideals. They were fighting the same battle. Mr Gompers had devoted his life and great abilities to democratic grogress. He was fighting the same attle now as before the war. (Cheers.) All classes had contributed ih sacrifices and suffering in the war, but victory meant more to those who had to get their bread by the sweat of their brow thany any other class. It was significant that all the genuine leaders of Labor in Britain, France, Italy, and America were convinced that victory was essential to what they had been championing all their lives. Before the war German labor was becoming more and more convinced that it could never achieve its emancipation without overthrowing Prussian militarism. Each election showed that that force was growing in Germany., but they failed. We are achieving by the war not merely security to the world against the menace of Prussian militarism, but emancipation from the bondage which German labor endured.