NATIONAL SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16021, 13 September 1915, Page 9

NATIONAL SERVICE.

EFFECTS ON INDUSTRY.

| NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

" *_ _-, (Received September 13. 1 a.m.) MS.: t London, September 12. The Observer, remarking that a majority of the Cabinet Committee of Inquiry has reported in favour of 1 national service, suggests that if the Government as a whole does not {support that view the rule of collec- ' tive responsibility should be ' relaxed, and every member should then bear his own moral responsi- .- bility, expressing his personal con- ■ fiction.

The Observer also" says that the great citizen army in the field, or about to take the field, however varied in the past were the political opinions of its members, is becoming almost unanimously in favour of : national service- This is required far less for its immediate military advantage than for the effect upon the whole industrial organisation for war. Mr. H Lloyd George's personal : convictions, since his experiences

- and inquiries in France, are decisively on the side of national service.! .

LABOUR OPPOSITION.

CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. (Beceived September 13. 1 a.m.). « _ Sydney, September 12. Union leaders strongly oppose the Universal Service League's proposals, maintaining that the British Government should initiate' conscription if it is needed. They express surprise at the Dominions attempting what Britain is not prepared to do. Conscription would result in the stagnation of industry and the disorganisation of the labour market. There should be conscription of wealth be- .- fore conscription of the workers.