THE MUNITIONS PROBLEM.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13873, 15 September 1915, Page 5

THE MUNITIONS PROBLEM.

UNION LEADERS AT THE FRONT

DEEP IMPRESSION CREATED

TALKS WITH THE SOLDIERS

London, Sept. 13

The Press Bureau states that i.ord Kitchener and Mr. Lloyd George have

arranged for eight parties representing

workmen employed in the munitions area to pay a four days' visit to "France to see the imperative necessity for accelerating the output. Mr Henderson headed the.finst patty. Trade union leaders visited the firing trenches at the end of August, including a section where our advanced forces were facing the enemy oh three fronts. The party report that conversations with the f-'f.ldiers impressed upon them that an overwhelming supply of munitions and a vast preponderate of projectiles were required in order to shorten the war. The requirements of the army were enormously in excess of all calculations. The.party visited Y/pres, which is a ma-;s of blackened and deserted ruins, the result of sheer wantonness. Will .t need the sight ef desecrated homes and the violation of "womar.hood to convince the British workir.an that he- must put fortu every-effort if Britain is to be saved from the fate of Bolgiiim find Northern-France, or, what is infir.keJy worse, to be saved from l-oing ccrrijic3l--ed by the selfishness and indifference

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of its citizens to conclude a degrading and disastrous peace? The vast majority of the industrial community ore doing their duty, but if the gaUaui fellows at tha front, are hampered \# slackness in tbo workshop disaster will inevitably .rcM.Jt. 'ihe soWiers were optirr.istb to a man, arid declared.that once the lads in the shops realise the need they will work until they drop so that they will not go short of munitions.