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MUNITION WORKERS WITH FIGHTING FORCES.

SPARE NO EFFORT."

BOLDIKHS CANNOT BELIEVE TRADE UNION1828 "WRONG" AVERYTIME,

curtain of shell-fire; the enemy's guns THE or aircraft operating against them must be harassed incessantly; and before they again advance to the attack their way must again be opened by shall fire

It is obvious that in such airenmstances the supply of shells must he not merely liberal, but unlimited.

This, in short, is what we feel con- A party of munition workers that re.cerning all munitions. Our troops need an absolutely limitless supply of every contly visited our armies in France and article that the best military experience Flanders, accompanied by Mr. Braon, suggests as necessary in modern warfare Under-Secretary of State for the Home

*** BOTH QUANTITY" AND QUALITY. Department, has presented to the Parlia mentary Munitions Committee the fol lowing report, which has been communi- cated for publication

for Having been accorded by the Govern ment the privilege of visiting our com- rades at the front, we think it well to record our experience and impressions.

As regards the German position in this respect, we need only say that we were repeatedly told, and could also ice for ourselves, that their expenditure of shells was out of all proportion to ours. Their supplies, minst be enormous. The rea- sonless way in which they shelled one the most remarkable that was impressed on us.

ENJOYABLE SIDE OF

THE WAR,

ENGLAND'S NEW MOOD.

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There is a new mood in England. T appreciate it fully your experience of the English people under war conditions weeds to be limited, like mine, to two or three visite to London site, the campaiga bogans

Each time there was something differ In the early ent in the atmosphere. winter last year the hide-the-truth folk Dig caused a vague and wild

Details are of necessity omitted, but the woll-known town is an example, and not prevail. Russian steam rollem to

conclusions we express are founded, not on one or two, but on large numbers of instanous,

them out liks rata," Joffre can brank June, Germany's starving"--no one through any time he likes Over in had grasped the elemental conditions of the war; fow could read a map or did if they could. The result was a rush, unstable, rather nervous hopefulness.

Next an to quality. Here again we are The military authorities received us stating the details to the proper au with every courtesy, and gave us every thority, and can give only our general facility for seeing things for ourselves conclusion, which is as follows: All im and talking freely with officers, non-ported supplies require most careful

You came back six months later in commissioned allicers, and men, who, like inspection; all work by unskilled labour ourselves, eagerly seized the opportunity needs close skilled supervision; and it May. By that time facts were leaking We saw the fighting forces at work at is absolutely incumbent on every mani-out every one sober and gloomy. every point, from firing line to base; tion worker, no matter how skilled, to with their nerves on edge and ready to watched places and units shelled, and use the most unremitting vigilance to find a vent for their uneasiness in abus individual batteries firing or under secure that all he does is perfect down ing anybody who ventured to suggest fire; noted the manoeuvres of aircraft to the smallest detail. To give only one remedies for the shortcomings which had

A faulty shell is not become unpleasantly apparent. while being ehelled; and examined with illustration: interest details of trench work and min merely wasted; if it does not explode, ing

it may nullify a whole series of range finding operations, and if it explodes at the wrong time, it may either kill our own troops or burst the gun and destroy the detachment that fired it.

A BAND OF BROTHERS ARE

At every point we were struck with the very fine relationship between others and the rank-and-file. This war has made them a band of brothers working, whole- heartedly together for the common cause, and the cordiality with which we were overywhere received, and the many re- ferences made to the mutual interdepen- dence of fighter and worker, were most cheering and encouraging

ADMIRATION FOR OUR MEN.

As regards both quantity and quality it was everywhere admitted that there At had been very great improvement. one point we waited with some troops while our big guns in the rear shelled the enemy heavily, and the men revelled ex- On the other hand, wo feel bound to ultingly in the thought that our turn montion the bitter and widespread re- had come. Again we watched the shell- sentment, of officers and men at the fronting by trench mortars of certain extan with interest and at the constant appearance in certain glements, and saw newspapery of articles disparaging the satisfaction their destruction. efforts that the country is making Men who have endured, and will endure, the worst hardships of campaigning with positive cheerfulness are sickened at the persistent depreciation of what they are doing out there, and what the civil popu- lation is doing at home, to carry on the war. Faults there may be, but the very strong general feeling was often expres- sed ju this war sc

We are all doing our best. Why can't these people cease their perpetual grumbling? No one grumbles out here. To urge greater effort is one thing, but to decry the tremendous efforts already made is quite different and only makes us angry. It does not deceive us. We see what is sent out and know what it means to supply it, and we see how the supply improves and increases Who are these people who assume the post- tion of critics N

Many fighting trade unionisty spoke

to us in this way.

Finally, we garely know how to ex press our admiration of the work our men are doing and the spirit in which it is done. The Sappers and Miners, the men on the listening posts, or in the trenches, the artillery, the medical staff, our experience the transport-cach, ag

recurs to us, come to merit special men tion. It must be enough to say that nothing more inspiring than the sight and that we return from our tour with a single desire to do all in our power to maintain and increase the supplies on which the success of their herolo en deavours depends, and without which all they have given, and must still give, will have been giver in vain.

THE BALKANS POSITION.

AN UNVARNISHED STATEMENT.

And now By now the English have evolved a fresh mood-in a sober, "force kind of way they have begun to enjoy the wor

It is not through oynicism or callous- ness that the nation has adopted this new temper. Two of the chief charac

Both toristics of the English are a sporting and an inborn sense of justice. feelings are appealed to by the war, and the same sort of grim pleasure is found cad who has in fighting the Germans as a man take in punching the head of insulted the girl to whom he is engaged.

Blow to alter are the moods of the English. It took about a year for the race to realise just what the war meant, what it was being fought for, and how formidable it was, and the same time discomfort and irritation of having to was needed for them to get over the change some of their conservative habits of life,

But all that is accomplished now, and like a runner who has comfortably got bis second wind, the English are settling down into their stride for a long distance

Moreover, everyone is immediately re lieved to find how much less terrible than was always expected the non-military side of the war has turned out to be Bread riots, strikes, and revolutions, whole cities smashed to bits by Zeppelins, bomb and arson outrages by aples, were the least of the horrors that need to be prophesied for the very first weeks of a general European war. Yet the astonish- Ing fact is that in no matter what bel- ligerent country you go to, the organism of society seem to support this huge

We are trade unionists working

Mr. L S. Amery, M.P., in an address excrescenes of war-for all that it is a alongside non-unionists, long hours, for at the Services Club on the situation, in great tumour draining the strength of little pay, and under war conditions. the Balkans, said that the importance of the body politic-without any consider- If we are to believe the only papers we the situation could not possibly be exagable perceptible change in the everyday get, the trade unioniste at home are ingerated. The events which were taking life of the people.

the wrong every time. We can't believe it. We know what we were before the war, we haven't changed our mate can't have changed. The trade unionist out here is not the worst man; he's out of the best. Why do the papers keep anying that unionists in England are

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But apart altogether from the negative kind of enjoyment that comes from find ing that a disaster is not as bad as you expected, there is a whole series of circumstances about the war that aro agreeable in a positive and very real way

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place in the Balkans meant that Germany How many men do you meet whose intended to crush the resistance of Serbia standards of life have been really greatly and get into contact through Bulgaria altored so far by the war? Incomes with Turkey. What that would involve have fallen in countiess cases, of course, would be unlimited munitions for the hut what an extraordinary and even un- suspected reserve of financial strength Turks in the Dardanelles.

Our position in the Dardanelles was the middle classes have revealed! As difficult enough already. It was far for the workers, there can be no denying more dificult than the Press Censorship that in very many trades they are hav- and the smooth words of the Government ing the most prosperous times in memory. On these points we appeal to the

allowed the people of this country workers to disregard all carping believe. The one great mitigation of our rontember that the job has got to be duge difficulties there was that while the Turks by them and the men at the front; to could cover the whole of the positions do their very best, and take no notice our men occupied by shell fire, they had of croakors. Having said this we may not got many shells to fire. If once the mention deficiencies. We wish, not to lecture, but to state the facts and invite Germans established contact with Turkey

The economising, for instance. our fellow-workers to consider, is by breaking down the resistance of Serbia

we should have to face a new situation there any thing that embittered mora shall ourselves in all seriousness after in which the Turks would have unlimited lives in the old pre-war days than the what we have soon, and as we hope the munition to fire at our men, In the constant galling struggle to keep up a nation as a whole will, what can be done

next place, the Turks would have rifles standard of living beyond what an in-" to remedy defects and remove them.

and ammunition for troops whom they come would bear Trying to make £300 Industrial stoppages, for no mater could not now arm. They would be able do the work of £500, to spin out two what molive, cous, great indignation to send reinforcements to Macedonia and thousand a year as far as three, to keep Our troeps feel that while they toil and

to the troops who might make a seconda motor-car on a pony-trap income fight under the full stress of modern attack upon Egypt

simply wade life miserable for hundreds military conditions it is wicked and wrong for anyone to impede their sup plies. Every course of action, whether by employers or men, that results in a limited output is regarded with the same detestation. A mutual interchange of views and our own first hand statements of what is actually being done in our own trades at home, did much to redues the facts to their proper proportions, but though we avoided exaggeration and exposed it wherever we found that it bad

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He supposed that at this moment there and hundreds of people who would never, were from half to three-quarters of a have admitted it. But they were in the million Turks who could be turned into toils, the cog wheels of the old social soldiers if only the rifles and guns of machine had seized them and drawn them this year or the beginning of next year, in when the German resources in men were Well, all that nightmare system has beginning to fail, new Turkish troops

or leaves cards now! You can sit in the would be ready to take the field. This gone by the board. It's nos good form ells of a theatre in a jacket suit; no was much more serious for us than for to be anything but economical now one tangone or talks about it any mores any of our Allies, for Egypt, Macedonia, though most people are far more the energy that inspired the wearying and even India might be open to the un moderate in following the fashion of Sufragette campaign has turned off into limited passage of German agents, guns, tony than they were in imitating.ore important channels Life is that of extravagance, Doing without to everyone without exception to give Apart from the military side there was

enjoyable. And, moreover it is full of their best efforts and reointain such another one. It would be an enormous first-there's no hardship in such things the most stuper dong interest, natre record that the results will sustain the advantage to Germany to obtain contact if the other fellow is doing them. In The most sluggish mind is intensely. wants of the men at the front with Taricey, because it would reduce at fact, they are rather pleasant, for though alert in these aimes, and all the were

Next as regards suficiency of supplies. once the advantage we had from the con- we don't like to confess it, most of us tricious devices in which the more At one point we wero told, “We want trol of the seas, by which we were able have a secret satisfaction in saving energetic used to seek for stimulus and more of this; at another

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to establish our blockade and to keep out money,

relief from the dull monotony of un- that. Then in the trenches we were certain essential supplies of foodstuffs There is, indeed, the sacred and bitter troubled prosperity-tango toë, night told, “We want more galvanized iron to and raw material. The Bulgarian and grief of those who have lost the men they clubs, and the rest-pall in their interesti make roofs, and more extended metal, Turkish harvests would become available loved. That can never be altered in this and seem fat, stalo and unprofitable in to hold up the sides," and again “more for Germany. In Asia Minor she would world. But they themselves will admit days when the ordinary morning newe- cable for communications."

be able to tap vast miners resources to you that there are two things that paper a thrilling page of world and in the north-eastern corner of Serbia make the tragedy more bearable than it history. she would be able to use an important could have been if their loss had come And while the war has thus come to. copper mine. From Mesopotamia she before the war One, naturally enough, show certain more cheerful aspects ‹ to would be able to get cotton by the time is the splendid cause for which the lives Englishmen at Home, there need be no cur much-belated cotton contraband dear to them were freely given, and the for that the Englishmen who are light-- policy began to take effect.

other is the general way in which their ing for their country find it irksome. burden is shared by almost everyone. The most cheerful men in London on any But apart from these personal sorrows, given day are those who have arrived. back that morning from the front whe- society as a whole in England is unm s- takably better for the tonic it is experither wounded or unwounded makes little And will anyone maintain encing. We are getting back for first difference. principles, shaking off scores of silly that the hundreds of sporting, open-air little prejudices that seemed riveted like loving young Englishmen for whom this Clase mingles more war has opened an escape from what used shackles upon us freely with class, or rather the artificial to seem inevitable lifelong drudgery in distinctions between the old social clases an office or a shop are not content, with different ways under the stress of war. prestige, too. They belong to a khaki have been weakened and dimmed in many the change? There is the matter of Shop assistants have become others, aristocracy, When he sold tape, în a earl's sons have become troopers, the shop or muscled a pen up a column of millionaire's wife goes to comfort the figures John Smith may have been an bricklayer's wife and is conforted by her almost negligible member of society, but in return, for their husbands were in the pat" Private" in front of his Bane and same regiment and fell fighting de com. he is a defender of his country, entitled rides aide by side. A great many of to consideration, and, what is more, get- those stupid, ercial customs that everyone thing it detested but no one lared to disobey have. All of which is of bad omen for the

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LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN."

But all the time and everywhere we were told, "We want more shells, and in particular high-explosive shells, Wo were not merely told these things; we could see for ourselves, and we are placing the matter before the proper authorities. We wish also to bring it home to everyone who either is working, or conld work, on munitions that literal- The Berlin Lokalanzeiger publishes ly no effort ought to be spared to increase protest against the increasing rudeness of all supplies. The war has become a war the Berlin shopkeepers to their customers. of munitions. The enemy's trenches are They seem to have been infected by the so deep, and his barbed wire entangle war-time manners of the Prussian soldier. ments and other defences are so enor According to theLokalanzeiger, a lady com mously strong, that the shell fire destroy them must be not merely great plaining of the quality of some linoleam but overwhelming. got the answer, My good wordan, don't If the defences are not thoroughly you know that there is war ca To which breached and the trenches are not liter the lady replied, "You seem to think ally shattered with high explosive shells, young man, that I am asleep. A shop our attacking partice will suffer the girl selling soap is described as saying to more in storming them, and the need for a discontented customer, You may thank God that you have got any soap at all shells, even in that one attack, is not then over when the enemy is driven We are at war and if you don't like it out into the open, shrapnel is required; you can leave it. The Lokalanzeiger also our much in the new position need pro-aays that shopkeepers are adopting a hec tecting against counter-attacks by a toring tone in their correspondence.

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