WORKERS AND MUNITIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3201, 21 July 1915, Page 31

WORKERS AND MUNITIONS.

WOMEN’S PART. LONDON, July 17. Heavy rain detracted from the women’s demonstrations, but the procession was a mile long in 125 sections, each headed with banners. Among the inscriptions were “ Men Must Fight and Women Must Work,” “We Are Not Slackers,’’ “We Mean to Save Our Country,” “ To Keep the Kaiser Out,” “ We Demand War Service for All.” Mr Lloyd George, in his address, said about 50,000 women were already working in the munition factories. It was a question of getting men and women to work together to help the country through the worst crisis ever experienced. The first thing was to get an adequate supply of machine tools. The Government was assuming control of all machine tcolmaking establishments. Women must give their whole time to the work, and they would receive the same piece rates as men. The Government would control the factories and see that there was no sweated labour. Women could help to victory. Without them victory would tarry, and victory which tarried meant victory whoso footprints were footprints of blood. HOW GERMANY ACTS. LONDON,- July 17 (11.30 p.m.) Munich advices state that disputes have arisen in several departments of Krupps owdng to the high cost of living. The military authorities have informed the management that they will not tolerate a strike. AUSTRALIA’S HELP. SYDNEY, July 17., No fewer than 530 men in the railway workshops have volunteered to give their spare time to munition -work without payment. MELBOURNE, July 17. The Munitions Committee has appointed a sub-committee to inquire into the posibility of manufacturing toluene. The Munitions Committee has di'afted a scheme for co-operation throughout the Common wealth. It has ascertained that practically all the raw material used in the manufacture of munitions is produced here. BULLYING RUMANIA. AUSTRIA’S THREATS FRUITLESS. LONDON, July 16. The Daily News Rome correspondent reports further bullying of Rumania. Austria threatens to close the frontier unless the restrictions on Austro-Germau exports destined for Turkey are removed. Rumania replies that only contraband goods are being stopped. GERMAN PRESS CAMPAIGN. LONDON, July 16. The German Foreign Office has opened a violent press campaign for the benefit of the Balkans, especially Rumania. The papers assert that Russia and Britain long ago agreed on a division of the spoils of war, but their schemes would be fatal to all the other interested Powers. Russia is to have a free hand in the whole of the Balkans and in Hungary and Galicia, also possession of the Black Sea coast as far as the Bosphorus, besides Constantinople, Thrace, and Armenia. England is to be supreme in Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia. Turkey is to become an Anglo-Rnssian protectorate, France and Italy receiving only minor compensations. Germany urges the Balkans, Rumania particularly, to come to an immediate decision, and meet the urgent demands of Germany. The Times' advises Rumania not to listen to this German Foreign Office press campaign, and expresses the belief that Rumania will not be deceived nor intimidated by bullying. ASSASSINATION PLOT. ATHENS, July 16. Telegrams from Constantinople describe a plot to assassinate M. Venizelos, Premier of Greece.. TURKEY AND BULGARIA. LONDON, July 16. Reports from Salonika declare that pourparlers between Bulgaria and Turkey have been broken off consequent upon the German successes in Galicia. The Turks refuse to cede the territory of Dcmotika; on the contrary, they hope to possess themselves of the whole of the Adrianople-Dcdcagatch rail-