BRITISH LABOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14634, 18 June 1918, Page 2

BRITISH LABOR.

MR. BEN. TILLETT'S MESSAGE* SYDNEY, Jiine 6. Air. Holmaii yesterday made available* the text of Mr. Beit. Tille'tt's message to British Labor:

The (military junta who have enslaved the German people, .said Mr. Tilictt, are Hinging away millions more of 'lives of the industrial people of the European nations, including their own, to gratify their insensate ambitions. I

They are remorselessly bleeding tho working -people of the, world' to yorge themselves with territory, military glory, and wealth. They have started, in fact, u new and a still more ghastly and 1 inhuman war in an hour when war might have ceased and peace might have com e to the Wdrld, It 1 all makes the! position terribly clear to its IVno carry the industrial burden. The diaractel 1 ' istic of the bully German is after all simply Hun rapacity. It is a cruel llisi for power, and now he has to face the cost of his own supreme mistake. His mistake in -thus' defying 'the -world has brought him to-day face to face with the moral antagonism of the world, organised into an iron military resistance, and behind that resistance is the psychology of a great spiritual courage backing tho organised fight that the freer nations are putting up. All nations can now, see that to be at the mercy of Germany, as the peoples of eastern Europe have been,, is to receive not mercy but tyranny, and to, experience not the con-, sideration that makes an enemy into an ally, but the grinding heel of unrelenting oppression.