NATION'S NEED OF INDUSTRIAL ARMY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14286, 1 May 1917, Page 4

NATION'S NEED OF INDUSTRIAL ARMY.

MR CHAMBERLAIN EXPLAINS-.. 1 NATIONAL SEWICE. | MEN TO GO ANYWHiEKE TO DC)' ', ANYTHING. "My appeal," said.. Mir Neville Chamberlain, opening the National Service campaign at Bristol, "is • for an industrial army ready to go. anywhere and do anything," : . \--.\ He had been, instructed to prepare a. BchonW on voluntary lines, and judging by the first response to ; his appeal he was ' going to succeed. Firsit of- all w,e must keep up the supply of i men to? the army. iThen. we must have material ready 'to fiLl the gaps left as those men wenij, into .the army, . and that was the task : of national service. , • •<. •» * •• ■ • He wanted to 'transfer men from nonessential trades- to essential trades, and move them about. In certain distributing trades' a great deal of labor could be saved by organisation. He hoped to help, them to do; that, but he musba-ely to.a: great extent on the patriotism and organisations of traders' themselves, > When we had .to make* -use^of all labour private interests' must-isuffer' before ithosp of the State. ;He hoped *to issue .dxiiing. the aexh . few ; days a. schedule, of. trades to . whioli .he i ■vtfould liav-e to .apply certain .restriction*,' and if- they. .did •'• »ot produce ■ . the -i de;sirßd pffect o hei'TtVpuld have to tighten the screw untii they <did. r t>-. He thought- it better: ta,^pstpontr-.,.the consideration -of the part-time., problem '■ Suntiluithjey .had ■ -got . the wholft'time wdrkera' scheme^ in ordet*, buti parit-tiraei>twoi'kej'is could organises Meanwhile he -had arranged for itho Employment Exolianges to have discretion to extend the seven days' notice, to volunteers? to 14 days. In dealing 1 with the case of pro-

Tessional men, Mr. - Chamberlain said the : last thing he desired . was that a man* working with his brain should work with his hands unless he desired to do SO. ■■'■ , ■ . ' ; '■?■• ■ . ''';•• ■•■ < ■ ..Therev would be 7. clerical i and administrative positions in . the, Government pfficos and important -'establishments' 'in industry, and they expec'ted to. fill those places with professional roeu. ;'\V *' W-oraeii labpr might be the last wtrnce of strength thai -would wii^ v ithe war, and • ho believed the womeji , appointed to deal with it. would doso with Sympathy a.ild understanding. , Many women were waiting paiiently. for ;. the call, and he asked them to' have 'confidence that Uieir devotion would noiS be abused.' < .- MiR. ■HENDERSON'SI APPEAL. "The great leaders- of . the Allied Armies in the. field will, be very' bitterly disappointed," said Mr. Henderson j addressing ia meeting in Manchester, "if, in the coming summer, wa^ do ; nott such a blow a& will, , with ' oilier circumstanpes which we* know to exist, leAd ; to the final victoiy upon \v hi oh- we have set our iheoirts." • Btob victoi'y was ndt going, to be final unless eveiy man and Avoman did what wSai most essential in thef^interestg' ■ of the Tiation and the successful , pi'osecution of the war. 'It was impfeir^tiv^ to' transfer labour from "less essential ..industries for ithe remaining - pe«riod 'of the ' war; The organisation of the Ministry oi Munitions was -.ton ,indieati<Mi; 6i 7 Svhat could be done. When the ''hisf-ory of the war came to be written, on^ of the finest features would be'the part played by the present Prime Minister ' in the 61'ganisation of munition manufacture. Unless we wei*e prepaved'-' to court di'saster • by , reducing, '.men. 'engaged in munitions and other essential trades below >a certain minjmum 1 ,. we,pould ouly meet) the German effort by calling upon all those who were free to" undertake work of national importance. 7 If we were to meet the submarine menace, if we were to provide the bulk of ,ithe people's fopdj agvicviltui-e- and - other j important t vadea m.ust have rather more labour than, less. . , „ . , .