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Waikato Times, Volume 84, Issue 13210, 28 June 1915, Page 3

INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION

MUNITION-WORKERS' BUr , REAUX BESIEGED. , j m' WJ :-;./' BRITAIN'S DUTY. i- . NATIONAL SERVICE URGED. WOMEN LABOUR IN 'GERMANY. ...LA REMARKABLE SUCCESS. LONDON, June 25. Mr Lloyd George held a conference with the executive of the Miners' Federation. He pointed out the urgent necessity of stopping all strikes and lockouts. The executive promised to consider the appeal and to confer with Mr Lloyd George to-morrow. Forty London Town Halls, where Munition Workers' Bureaux are established, are being besieged by inquirers. Recruiting begins to-night. In the course of his speech in the House of Commons, Captain F. Guest, Liberal member for Dorset, urged that Britain's duty to her allies required her to organise to the very limits of her power. He thought that the Muni-' tions Bill did not go far enough. He wcu'.d immediately establish national service. Mr Asquith suggested that the time was inappropriate to discuss or even ventilate the important topic raised. He assuied the House that it was impossible to exaggerate the importance of passing the Bill at the earli est moment. A neutral visitor to Berlin, writing in the London Times, emphasises the lemarkable success of Germany in organising women. They are everywhere thrust into positions of great responsibility. A party of women of gentle birth were seen digging in a drainage ditch in Berlin. Forty per centum of the workers manufacturing high explosivs, shells and packing cartridges are women. Female labour also ierresents 15 per cent, of the hands making harness, 50 per cent, of the tentmakers, 33 per cent, of the chemical makers, 75 per cent, of those packing tinned meals for the army ard ot those employed in textile mills, and 70 per cent, of tobacco workers. ACTIVITY IN FRANCE. PENALTIES FOR SHIRKERS. PARIS, June 25. The Chamber of Deputies voted the war credits of £2,400,000.000. M. Viviani, Prime Minister, said that the task wa3 hard and perhaps would be long. "But that we shall face it, every man at his post," he continued. "I can with confidence declare now that we are carrying out the reorganisation of our industries." The Chamber also considered a Bill for expelling shirkers from safe billets by means of penalties ranging from two to five years' imprisonment to be inflicted on such men and their prctectois. A mixed committee of men and masters has been formed to bring cases of shirking to the notice of the authorities and for discovering the names of men at the front who are required in the workshops.