THE COMPULSION BILL

Waikato Times, Volume 86, Issue 13082, 17 January 1916, Page 5

THE COMPULSION BILL

RAILWAYMEN'S RESOLUTIONS. AN APPEAL TO UNITED LABOUR. LONDON, January 15. The Rail way men's. Executive adopted resolutions urging Labour to unitedly oppose compulsion, as involving confiscation of men's lives while leaving the nation's material resources in the hands of the privileged classes. "The number of eligible unmarried men unattested," says the resolution, "is insufficient to affect the issue of the war. Mr' Asquith's pledge, given without consulting the electors, does not bind the manhood of the country. Unless the Government is prepared- to confiscate wealth, we will resist the confiscation of men to the utmost."

PARIS, January 15. Gustave Herve, once famous as the strongest anti-militarist in France, in an article in La Victoire, commenting on the English Compulsion Bill, says: "When a few months hence England's clenched fist descends on the skull, of the German colossus, Prussianism will be' vanquished. But on the day of victory we will not fail to tell certain* English Socialists and Labourites that if we are unbeaten it is not their fault.' 1