LABOUR AND THE WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16508, 7 October 1915, Page 5

LABOUR AND THE WAR.

SOCIALISTS' MANIFESTO.THE STRIKE HAS ITS LIMITATIC)NS. LONDON, October 6. " (Received Oct. 6, at 9.30 p.m.) The Socialists' manifesto supporting recruiting says that the right \to strike is a priceless weapon, in the hands of Labour but has its limitations. To strike now would be a blow levelled at their brothers in the trenches, and. a corollary might be a strike by tne soldiers themselves. Then God help the civilians!

RECRUITING IN BRITAIN. LORD DERBY UNDERTAKES DIRECTION. LONDON, October 5. v Lord Derby, at Lord Kitchener's ■request, has undertaken the direction of army recruiting. . THE N T EW DIRECTOR. PERSONALLY ADVOCATES , NATIONAL SERVICE. '. BUT WILL GIVE VOLUNTARY SYSTEM A TRIAL. LONDON, October 5. (Received Oct. 6, at 8.40. p.m.) , Lord Derby, at a recruiting meeting at Rossendale, said that he had accepted the directorship of recruiting because of his personal loyalty and friendship to Lord Kitchener. Personally, he advocated national service, but he would do his best to make the voluntary system a success. The action of tho Trades Union Congress would have the effect of (putting every man on his mettle to prove that the voluntary system was a'dequate. If, ultimately, he considered that the recruiting was not successful, he would not hesitate to resign unless other methods were adopted.