"AMERICAN WEIGHT FELT VERY SOON"

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 4

"AMERICAN WEIGHT FELT VERY SOON"

LIGHTNING TOUR, BY BRITISH TRADE UNIONISTS. 1 !vi ' 1 ' ! NATION DETERMINED TO SMASH ] PRUSSIANISM. LONDON, May 27. "Don't talk about peacejrDon't disctiss ; negotiations. We have no time for that now; we are busy fighting the enemy. When he is defeated all. these matters will take care' of themselves." This statement; reflects the situation m the< United) Mr. Chai'les Duncan, •M.P., aecreta'cy of ihe Workers' Union, 1 told a representative >-of-tho»-l^aily Ohro-' nide. Itarepreßeirts, Jie says, the' feeling' of the whole aiotibn 1 . < - ' i; " ;!; ' ' "There arc m iAmerica," ho went on, "ten million meta between the ages of .21 and 35' physicallv qualified t>o bearmrms.If they &re re^uired,^ every on© -of 'them' »'will bo sent. And with I*them1 * them- will 1 come;' all 'the arms, munition I ;' and supplies they may need." . • " ' ; *■'■ '■ • ' ■- :Mr. Duncan lias returned from a' lightning i' tour through the- 'States m com- ' pany with Mr. W. A. Appleton (secre- f tary of the General Federation of Trade Onions), Mr. W. Mosses (Ministry of. Munitions), arid Mr. J. Butterworth (Shipwrights' ' Society). > . !"We went," said Mr. Duncan, "at tho invitation -of the* U.S. Committee of De . fence — of which Mr. Sam Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, is a member.. . This body asked Ahe 'British Government' to send over a foody'of'representative trade unionists to tell them , about the, industrial difficulties we had ( had to meet m this country, and about* the mistakes that we had made m dealing wjth them. • ' .. '. •"Wo landed m New York on February 10, and the same evening wo ada meeting of 5000 people m. the Century Theatre.. The next day we loft for Washingtpn, where, we, met the President, Mr. Hurley, the Shipping Controller, and other 'heads of' departments."- •. 1 President Wilson spent an hour with! the deputation. "He- reminded me very much of Joseph Chamberlain," Haid Mi". iDiincan. "He had .the samo decision,; the same energy,, the same tact — without^ tht same aggressiveness. . His last woimJs to ?me were : — i We are all m .ihe «ame boat ; I hope no' one will start rocking it. , "I was amazed at -what wo saw andj hehrd. It was the same everywhereeast, south and west/; The American, people are heart and soul with, us. in i thfe war ; they ar© prepared to do everything to defeat ■the : Germans. Theyi haw scrapped the whole - of their s domestic-, industries, and are turning thftir whole attention_ to the productiqn Mi ships end waiv. jnaterial on 'a scale Xucli .*s the .world.! had aaever seen^ be.-., •fore.".- . . - ■ .•-.•'■ ;•'■■ : ' ■ v - ; - A ■■< 'i'But the German-Americans?" i "When we. started wei wero under the same : impression as others m this country — that; these were a- 'great danger. >AUi I can say is that I never came across a'-r better lot of people than those we met m 'the German centres. One of, these is Minneapolis; and this town subscribed more per head to the Liberty Loan than any other; -The Irish are just aesheartily with' the President and the rest of the peopUv" ■".•■:■ • * ■'•• • ; "The proposed. International fonforence ?"

from enemy countries so long as the war; lasts. •-. . ■■> . .. .. '■„-. ■ ':? i. \s ■ "The people 1 of the. United States meani to see that Germany is completely and finally defeated.,,. Even if alb the other Allies give it up. Before many months' are ovei^ you will /see that they mean what they- say. , They i have epont tlie first year m careful preparation ; from now onwards we. shall have .occasion , to realise the_greatneßS of their effort." -j