LATE LORD KITCHENER.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17335, 25 November 1916, Page 4

LATE LORD KITCHENER.

HOW A STRIKE WAS AVERTED. An interesting ceremony took place at Liverpool on September 30, when the Earl of Derby presented to Mr James Sexton, general secretary of the Dockers' Union, a framed and inscribed photograph of Lord Kitchener's memorable appeal to the dockers, written on the occasion of his visit to Liverpool. Mr Sexton subsequently offered the gift for sale for the benefit of tho Red Cross Funds, tho sum of £SOO being realised. Lord Derby remarked that when thoro was threatened trouble at the docks, Lord Kitchener asked that Mr Sexton should come and talk the matter over with him at Knowslcy, and after that talk the letter was written. It was his appeal to the men, an appeal which he (Lord Derby) was glad to say had been, in the main, loyally acceded to. Mr Sexton, in reply, referred to his meeting with Lord Kitchener, and said lie could picture in his mind's eye the stern soldier, who was not, only a soldier and a man. but a kindly, courteous English gentleman, and his (the speaker's) great regret was that he had not been spared to see some of the fruits of his enormous labour. Lord Kitchener recognised the value of organisation in both a military and industrial sense, so long as it was properly used, and one comment he .made to him was that tho future of this, or any other nation, depended on tho physical condition of its people. He said, if ho was spared, after the war onn of the things ho would lay himself out to remedv was the particular blot on rfiir social life. Mr Sexton added that if Lord Kitchener could send a message to England to-day he felt sure that message would he "Carry on, and all should obey, from peer to peasant, and countess to charwoman.