LLOYD GEORGE AND GOMPERS,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14712, 18 September 1918, Page 9

LLOYD GEORGE AND GOMPERS,

FIGHTING THE SAME BATTLE. \ LONBON, Sept. 4. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at a Government luncheon at the Carlton' Hotel to Mr. Sam 'Gompers (president of the American Federation of Labor), at which Mt. -Barnes', a member of the i War Cabinet, presided, and a large and distinguished company, including Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward, ; were present, said that Mr. Gompersi and he had very largely the same ideals. They were fighting the same Kittle. Mv; Gbmpers had' devoted his life, and great?" abilities to '" democratic •progress. -H e was .'fighting the same battle. now asJibfore We war. (Chqers.) AH classes had : contributed m sacrifices and suffering m the war, but victory meant more ;to those who had to get their bread by the sweat of their brow than any other, class. It, was significant that all the genuine leaders of Labor m Britain, France, j Italy, and America were convinced that victory was essential to what they had been 'championing all their lives. Before the' way German labor was'becoming more and more convinced that it cpuld never> achieve; its emancipation

without overthrowing Pimssian militarism. Each election showed that that force was growing m Germany, but they failed. We are achieving by the war not .merely .security ..to the' world against the menace of .Vntasian militarism, hut' emancipation "from th* bondage which German labor endured.