LABOUR AND THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16309, 16 August 1916, Page 8

LABOUR AND THE WAR.

1 ♦ 3 LECTURE BY MR. V. GRAYSON". i " Tins war ha* to be won by one side of 5 civilisation against another," said Mr. Yic- } tor Grayson in a lecture at the Town ' Hall last night on "The War and Labour's r Destiny." He said that when the war was over he believed there was a greater , war to he faced, and that was the fight , of the worker to live under better general e conditions. The greatest and most won- - dertul thing about the war was that it " had changed the hearts of men and women, 1 Workers who were sluggish before had * i also found things out and stood side by i side in the great struggle. When thev r returned to their former vocations. how- . ever, they would not submit to the same j inadequate conditions which existed before i the war. The basic struggle would be for -i the establishment of a federation of manr kind. He expressed the opinion that the e primary and controlling influence of ail 5 wars was economic, and a desire on the i part of one class to dominate another He e paid a tribute to the general part taken g in the war by the working classes, both .. in the making of munitions and on the a field of battle, and said the great conflict , had taught Labour lessons it would not o readily forget. People must not imagine •. that the millennium was near when the wax a was over, but he was firmlv of the opinio,, that those who had borne the great brunt of it would come by th«r own. The lee ! Mirer described his visits to as near the i battle-front as the sentries would permit , d his going, and the impressions made , upon him by many stirring and patheti.