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To learn to fly is a fairly simple buši. It is becoming increasinty clear every news nowadays, but to become a service BY CHARLES DUNCAN, M.P., SECRETARY OF day that the war is not be waged only plot is an altogether different matter. [BY

Some machines, like the old Vickers and at the front. The war, he become in THE WORKERS' UNION.)

Bristol pusher, almost few them- truth a war between nation there are selves, and a novice could handle them

I do not know how it is possible to do The prospects for the organisation of no longer non-combatants of either side with comparative safety. It takes more justice to the work of our guns and gun. unskilled labour are brighter, certainly it in a question really of satire in than a novice; however, to manage the ners in thero battles. In describing any

the last stages of the struglo, and in brighter than they were two years ago the testing time that lies efore the dainty little scout fighters and the big attack one never fails to explain how battle planes of to-day, and a very well largely success is due to the excellence In the past there has been much strife moral of the people at home will prob trained pilot indeed is necessary to fight of our barrage, nor could any attack and confict between the various unions ably be the final and determining Inter Mem. Thus the training squadrons of hope for success without the preliminary

is to the issue, anys, the forming For which cater for men and women of this It is not what the inflated ritorie of the Royal Flying Corps have to aim at work of the artillery which nowadays class, but this, I am happy to say, is fast the day calls a question of the est far. tuning out a pilot who la far more than is generally so overwhelming. But when disappearing. At the present moment thing and the last man, but of the hero flier. Tant may have been sufficient the advance actually begins, the splendid negotiations aro already pretty well for

dominates all elso. the ward with the object of bringing together too, mas of the populations new type of sirman is required-the pilot dominiour of our infantry inevitably into one vast organisation quito a the of the biggest unions of general workers aspect of affairs it is most important to fighter the man who can both fly and and steadiness of the infantry that must.

know in so far as that is possible how Agbthis machine

in the last resort win battles. Without which have joint membership of roughly far the strain is telling on the othergide To evolve this type has been the task them there is no victory. But the few Among the rank and file there is a very to gather together any reliable indices of L training squadron. Their success glorious hours of infantry advanco are vaiting. Mere vague general statements pilot-ighter at the Froat. Never has 28 if less spectacular weeks of labour by tion and greater unity among the several unions. Their officials realise this just as are el little or no value. What one completed and scientific a system of the guns. much as do the rank and file, but, there wants, if they can be had, are statements educaton been developed before in so That is the great burden which the are many and serious difficulties in the that are full and precise, that can be short aima But the real triumph has gunner has to bear a burden which is

which take time to overcome. I feel weighed and measured so as to give some been achieved, not in the mere turning increased a hundred-fold by weather buch See our Beautiful Arab Stalllons and Performing Ponies, that, unless the end of the war comes thing like an indication of the difference out of a large number of pilots of high as we are having now. He gets no rest siddenly than we think, this move from the normal and pre-war conditions. general atainments, but in the retention In periods of what we know as quiet ment for greater unity will have been Unfortunately, information of this fuil and develoment of the individuality of the guns thunder unceasingly night and brought to a successful issue before the and precise character is not easily get each pupil by a careful study of his day I told in a recent dispatch of the ELEPHANTS, LIONS, TIGERS, BEARS, LEOPARDS, HYENAS EMU, ZEBRA,

strain upon the guns, and how, by the

WALLABY, BABOONS, MONKEYS, DOGS, Ere. war is over thus enabling the unions to at Occasionally, however some set of particular eds. meet the very grave difficulties which facts comes to light which gives something Thus, after passing his flying tests a quality of the weapons themselves, by the will have to be faced when peace comes. tangible on which to base our estimate opil is not sent haphazard to any care and admirable work of the gunners,

Besides this, it is obvious to anybody of relative loss. One of such sets is the squadron or jut in charge of any kind and by the unremitting labour of the MATINEES WEDNESDAY AND Saturday AFTERNOONS who is making a close study of the atti-record of deaths from tuberculosis, a of machine lefors he has left the steady mobile ordnance workshops, they endure tud, of the general run of employers, that disease in which the general conditions training accolanes, his instructor has much beyond the limit of what in all from their side a different frame of mind us to nourishment contribute materially carefully cordered for what type of former wars was thought possible. But and a different spirit are being displayed, to the incidence of mortality. There are plane he is bet suited. Aeroplanes are how is ons to measure the strain upon

war is responsible for many changes available returns of deaths from this dislike horses in the respect that some re the men fa and ong of the greatest of these is the ease in a very large number of places quire very delicto handling, while others recognition on the part of employers of in Germany, representing something like require a very strong control and the the necessity for better relations between two-fifths of the population of the Em-adding pilots ale assigned to the various them and the trade unions in the imme pire. These show an enormous inercase diate future, if this outry is to con- in deaths on the numbers recorded in types of acroplates according as they are light, medium, or heavy handed. An keep its position in the markets the same places before the war. Here are airman might be able to fly a big de tinue to of the world, if it is to press forward the numbers of such deaths for the first Haviland with trilliant success, yet the and play an even greater part in supply six months of this year as contrasted

same man might kill himself on a little ing the world's wants than it has done with those for the same period in 1913, Sopwith Pup. Moreover, once a pilot in the past.

for the different divisions of the German

has been given his maschine he is not suddenly, shifted to one of another type Empire No. of No. of

Hence the intimate co-operation of man before them Try, instead, to visualize Federal state, deaths, deaths, Increase and machin so evident in our flying these battlefields, with the endless, ex- service of today a co-ordination which unuse of grey-brown slime and stagnant makes the observer wonder sometimes water, acróis which our batteries are Prussia

whether the man is part of the machine pushed forward with incredible difficulty, W. HARMSTON,

to or the machine part of the man. and where every round of ammunition

The great development in air-fighting the forward field guns must sometimes during the last to years has forced the be packed on human backa, for no mule pliot fighter to quite another alain Popy can get over the sodden shell- 4pment in which individuality counts for or ground. There is no shelter for 50 p.

everything Not only must he be able or gunners either from weather or enemy fire. A brigade commander, is to keep the air with his machine, he has lucky if he has a dugout for his staft 122,008 37,064 78 p.c. be able to stunt. In aerial combats headquarters.

victory goes to the airman who can It will be seen that the increase in the manicure most quickly into shooting Of rest in its true sense, of changing numbers and percentages of deaths from position known as a dead spot, that of clothes, or any comfort, there is none this scourge is marked in every part of is to say, a position from which he op What sleep is taken inust be snatched on the Empire, but that this increase is not ponent's guns cannot be brought to bear waterproof sheet spread upon the by any means so great in the South Get against him. Similarly, when attacked,alime bieals are bolted as they may be man States, Bavaria, Wittemberg, and that pilot who can extricate himself most amid the all-pervading horror of the Bades, as in Prussia and Saxony. It is quickly from such position and cannud Men alt down on an ammunition matter of common knowledge that there turn the tables on his adversary is he box to eat, and fall into stuper as they have been continual bickerings as to the who is most likely to be victorios, or, aib Officers drop asleep in the act of food conditions prevailing in different at all events who will live to fight an, giving a command to the guns. And it parts of Germany, and that it is alleged other day Quickness in manœuving is never ends. Rain comes in torrents and again and again that Bavaria in part the sine qua non of success to air fight icy winds sweep across the waste and cular is better off in this respect than the ing, and quickness in maneuvring de grey bitter days give place to mora hitter others. Complaints have appeared with pends on the ability of the airman tonight, when the sky is allame with star competition which have existed in the past great regularity that Bavaria was not make his machine do tricks each day and night is the same with its

1913. 1017 :13,876 -24,631

SECURING THE WORLD'S MARKETS. There will, of course, be many oppor tunities after the war for a great develop- anent there will undoubtedly be an in- tensified competition for that trade, and the nation, which works together in the Bavaria .............. 2,242 greatest harmony must ventually succeed In securing the greatest portion of the world's marketą.

The Whitley report, recently issued, seems to me to indicate the lines upon which this might very naturally and very easily be accomplished. All that is necessary is mutual forbearance. and Given mutual goodwill on both sides.

a recognition of this and there can be no doubt that we shall have a new basis upon which a better understanding can be founded

It is just possible that sich an under standing will load to a greater organisa tion both of employers and employed than this country has yet seen The war las brought thousands of firms, under Govern ment, control Much overlapping his been cut out in the running of these cerns under the Ministry of Munitions, And it seems reasonabl to suppose that whin trade gets back into its norm channels this overlapping and endless

will be no longer repeated, but will be

eliminated. R

Saxony Wurttemberg Baden

Alsace Lorraine. Other States

Total

3,141

77.p.C 40 p.c.

1,764

2,899

CE!

930

755

1,094

388

688. .1,703

**: 848. 2,049

65 pic. 40 pc. 45.p.c. 073159p.c

bearing her share of the common burden

in this respect, and that her refusal to

allow foodstuffs to be exported to Frumia. If this is done, I have no doubt that was an act of selfishness. Whatever

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chells and rockets and shell bursta, and

position a short distance to the right, and mud and always there are the Thus if pilot desires to take up a turmoil and uproar and unending fatigue his quickest way of reaching, it is ta side-enemy's shells; though it is the one kindly slip. To get behind an atticking mashing and a single-seater pilet

gurt he may either loop the loop direct, power s

can be augmented to much greater they are borne out by the figures above viously must do this before he can use bioplosion of shells and makes their killing extent than most people imagine The quoted. If the numbers of deaths in the Ministry of Munitions has corting towns in question are a fair index of the side-loop To decgive a persistent. Many of our batteries, as they thrust shown how it can be done and is being done to-day. The employers have in this general conditions prevailing, this our attacker or to upset the range of anti-forward, are necessarily compelled to respect been taught a lessen in combinarent year would give a death-roll of aircraft gunners, he must be able to take positions in the open with no sort tion which should indicate to the something like two hundred thousand perform some such manoeuvre as the of shelter to hide them from enemy ob- Possibilities

greater productivity in the persons from the great white scourge of If this can be accomplished along As far as information that may be relied spinning nose dive, which will take him bervation, any more than there is shelter 6 proper understanding with the upon is available, the situation in this to a safe distance from his enemy, while to protect either men or weapons from

giving the latter the impression that he oneray fire The enemy, not being com trade unions, I can forcico period of respect is much the game in the Duni has been mortally injured. Such tricks pelled to advance his guns over these great and extended prosperity in front Monarchy as it is in Germany. That in in the Flying Corps, vernacular are swept battlefields, has an immenso ad of the commerce and industry of formation is practically confined to the called stunts." The pilot who has a vantage in these respects. He is in ʼn country

three cities Vienna, Prague, and Buda particularly large number at his comfairly unspoilt country and has leisure post.

mand is a stunt marcment and the to make his gun positions, his pits, and greatest stunt merchant is the best pilot dug outs with concrete quarters for his ighter

men, Several times I have mentioned the user which he employe to make hin guns more difficult to hit even not seldom at the expense of their efficiency. Our men, with no such ruses, no camouflage, or concrete, or shelter, must stick it out

this

The object is certainly one worth striv ing for, and one which will recoup many times over any little sacrifees that may have to be made to personal and indiv dual inclinations. Competition may have been a good thing in the past, but that Combination applied day has gone by. to production is to be and will remain one of the biggest factors of the future.

JOON'

deaths int

half of 1913.

deaths int

Thalf of 1917.

3,589

No. of

7081

7 p.c

100pc

Bome of the more comtion of these stants can be taught at the training squadrons, and the instructors are all men who have thought them out them 18 1.0selves or put them into practice over in the open and take what comes And the battle line, But the stunt-mer the light-hearted contempt with which chant is born, not made. Everything they face all danger is a thing so much depends on the individuality of the pupil a matter of course that it is almost sa himself. Each time he sends his machine insult to speak of its into some "' stunt ... manœuvre for the

known. Not only trust he be able to

Vienna Prague ou 1,035 1,783 Budapest 1,927 3,846

Thus, in these three cities there was an increase of B4 per cent in the number of deaths from tuberculosis in the first

for the trade recorded in the same period of 1913.

WOMEN WORKERS AND TRADE UNIONS, Before the war there were roughly about 14,000,000 manual workers in this country, only 4,000,000 of whom bad any semblance of organisation in trade unions. There half of the current year over the number frest time he takes & step into the un

unions to get busy... It may

of the

but

VALMOST SUPERHUMAN."

Sa here a wonderful scope of course, What has been the experience of London begin the manœuvre be must be able to The real marvel of what ouz, günzers Fare doing, and have done, is not any that they have had a burnt on Boy morgard to the same veriods bordonis peniten, to the normal a fatal of a crear measure of the castrage, which they d the opposition of many mortality in the sime period 15 men to a quick and 6 miss. Tot hibit in facing danger, super choos employers, to build up

trade unions to the Registrar General's Weekly Be often a case of a bit or emiss Yot every that may be, but it lies in the enormous

understand. "the past with a better

turns the deaths due to tou various forms day you can see the British boy airmen physical and nervous strain to which ing and a

appreciation of each others difficulties, and with greater unity of this disease during the first weeke practising stunts, new and old some

of 1013 numbered 3,928; while in the first times making the observers so fick whey are subjected. I can give no the unions, themselves there seems half of the present year they numbered apprehension as to the result of them figures, of course, nor can I be explicit among little reason to doubt that the trade union 4,358, an increase of 11 per cent. The maneuvres, but always practising and help the enemy to inferences as to our sto facta, lest something mid shoull double, if not, treble, their prosent membership and thus concentrate the mass four times a great in the Gorman pilot has the sporting instinct big our artillery of one kind or another. It rise in deaths from tuberculosis was more practising For the British schoolboy gun power and the methods of handling the workers into a thoroughly well organised and thoroughly discip med body towns as it was in London in the three within him, and stunting is the must suffice to any that no gung are of men and women, who may be able to Austrian cities it was more than five times sportsman a gazie moved into the line and withdrawn in play very real part in the productive as great Stunting then, is the means by the same rotation as the infantry. All

This increase in Germany at least has life of the nation. been mainly in the current fear for which the pilot gains shooting position the guns have longer spells of work in constitutes a vast new problem and although 1916 and 1916 both showed some against his adversary, but the pilot the line that any infantry, and othe The offers a new opportunity to the trade Advance on 1918, it was insignificant a fighter must be able to shoot as well as incomparably longer than others.

compared with that recorded above. It

· stumt "" "Great attention is paid to his gunners have often to face long spells of unions. The ability and skill displayed is therefore no unfair inference to draw, machine gun anstruction at the training work which would, in any circumstances, by the women have been acknowledged on when one concludes than it is one of the squadron, and before he leaves it as a test human endurance to the uttermost, All hands. • They are doing work to day which in the past, most people believed to results of the prolonged and there subjected to most rigorous testing prevail here now, the things they have full fledged fighter his marksmanship is but in conditions such xứ those which impossible.

They have developed strain then the vitality of the German -skill and capacity which are beyond all nation as a whole.

be

The advent of women into the workships

praise.

he life of me believe cannot for the that when war is over, the skill and

ability displayed by these women are fay as I can ceo, have been in a position going to be thrown away and wasted. balieve that a very considerable propor to cope with the work of organising such tion of these women will still remain in Aumbers,

Aeris gunnery is a much more compli to db, the strain they stand, the spirit cated business than machine gunning on and cheerfulness with which they carry land Both the target and the gun hase on are almost superman are in motion at the same time British

inventive genius has evolved a sight faced and done can never be told or un- *The fale of what our gunners here have which noutralises the speed factor of the derstood; but if only a tithe of it could frring machine, and by an equally derer te made plain, England wand be as the factories. The conditions under which Howtrer the trade unions are making devica the pupil pilot is able to practice proud of its of anything in all ber they are employed why, of course be sure and steady progress in this direction. Bring against another machine in motren. varied, but I think the women will go on As the a girls get seasoned to factory life with the results as dearly registered as Astors. Hoing many of the they have so and as they associate more and more with successfully accomplished hitherto the male members of trade union, they ough he were pumping lead into begin to understand the objects o

of the

memy zilzné. Small balloons and targ Women have so far ben very di feu trade no efforts

on the sea or on waste land are also the most deadly fighter on the" "battle. They begin to organise in trade unions. But in the past realize the value of the

used to perfect him in shooting.

msh who talks lovingly that have few of the uniong really bent themselves already bean so successfully inade on their Caarses, of instruction in wireless, telo- to this task. The women have come into beball They will I think be just no raphy, bombing, mapping and target the workshops in such tremendous num keen, just as ready, just se ng to take snotting complete his training, and then. bars far beyond what anyone could have their part in spreading trade unionise the pilot joine his squadron. He is now who looks BaLicipated and few of the unious, 80 throughout the whole, mas (Continued nt foot of next Column) workers Daily Chronicle.

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