NEW ACT IN FORCE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

NEW ACT IN FORCE.

VOLL" NTEER • MUNITIONS "•• BRIGADE.

London, June 9

The Munitions Minister Bill passed tho House of Lords, and has received tho .Royal assent.

Lord St. Davids regretted that the Bill did not give power to requisition men as well as works. He dissociated himself from the attacks on the great organised working classes. He ,said the upper classes would come wonderfully w-01l out of tho. trial; but still, there were idlers among them. Even among the members of the House of Lords were men who had never done a. day's work fcr themselves or anybody else since they were born, while their sons wore still hanging round the theatres and music halls. While that was so it was no use going to the workmen and talking conscription or compulsory service. Men who refused to wcrk should be made to fight.

Hundreds of city business and professional men have enrolled as volunteers in a munitions brigade to put in week-ends at Woolwich arsenal in ammunition making.