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entrance into the

,per cent.,

register Its managers have been inter absolutely controlled the base metal indus- GREAT BRITAIN PAYS THE ENENT PENETRATION

ned, but what has been done here I take try of the world before the war. I am not

PRICE Mertons merely as an example to show quite clear on this point. I understand MR. HUGHES, INDICTMENT,

HALF A MILLION BRITONS KILLED. you that what has been done here is not the American Metal Company has been Mr. Hughen, Prime Minister of Aus- enough, that unless more is done the similarly treated. They would have done By way of commemorating the anniver tralia, was the principal speaker at a passage of time will see German control so before, but for the fact that Mertons sary of Great Britain'

war, the British War Commission has great meeting held in the Drill Hall it again in our midst. What has been done in London were allowed bo carry on made public some figuren which show how Derby on September, and under the aus here After four years of war against busiem here. The American Government great has been the contribution of the pices of the Merchant Seamen's League, Germany this German octopus in our has seized the 49,000 shares held by Ger-pire to the Allied cause Commander Sie das Nicholl presse mides, which, has waxed fat, on the war, tians in Germany. They are placing the Empire chrinen ligament throughout the

total-enlistment wired on the wars

THE BARAT, 300; uppksäfflers; and of these, 60 which has made huge proats, which will business in the hands of trustees. Let us per cent, or 4,500,000 were raised in Eng- Mr. Havelock Wilson moved a resolu-strengthen Germany's credit after the hope the United States Government do not land itsel; the proportion for England

intend to stop there.

and Wales combined being 70 tion to the effect that there can be no war, was a day or two ago refused What is being done here? This stent says the Soientale American. peace by negotiation with a nation which license to sell metals. That and nothing ence in our midst after four years of war made for any cause is that of one's life Octopus a menace its continual exist- The greatest contribution that can be attempts to justify such abominable crimes more.. I will show you what this means is difficult to understand. They are Ger and limb. In the four years of the war as those committed on the high sens by later. Now what is Mertons Mertons is man agents in our midet, they are keeping the British casualties have amounted to the Germans. He said he indicted the one of the great agencies of the enemy with Germany after the war.

the channels open

a renewal of trade over 9,500,000. Of these, over 500,000 have They are been killed, and at least an equal num- whole of the German nation, and worn within our gates. It is the English making huge profits, mainly for Germanber so terribly wounded and broken that especially the organised trade unionists branch of one of the most powerful trade out of the necessities of the Allies. When they will never be able support themselves. of Germany, who had been for long organisations the world has ever seen. Its directe told that after managers and So that over 1,000,000 British have been

of the American Metal Company enough in league with the General 9taff tentacles are in every quarter of the earth, took from that concern alone, excluding priced in the four years of the war. of Germany, making their plans according its heart is in Frankfort-on-Maint of about £360,000 for the year 1917 alone who took part in the famous Sound Money dividends, or payment for services, & total those citizens of New York, 100,000 strong. What this means will be understood by

to the ideas of the General Staff for under the cloak of naturalisation. It that individual payments were made parade some twenty years ago. The me

shelters itself everywhere outside Germany naval and military purposes. (Cheers) pretends to be English, or American, or exceeding £50,000 and even £75,000 per went by, sixteen, sbreast, at a good swing. It would be 4 disgrace to the British French South African, or Swiss.annum, youdly agency of the enemy pauses; nevertheless it took over twelve

will realise what a blood. Australian. underneath this cunning

emy ing suit and without any considerable sucking and disguise it is German to the core. If those manent has placed these concerns, and

Merton octopus The Americana

bours for that host to pass the reviewing

nation to allow their orimes, to be merely incidents of the past. *

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but

throwing, it may be, a few crumbs

makes money for German Enanciers Beer Sendheimer, and Aron Hirsch,

Hence, if those 500,000) alaita Mr. Hughes, who had a rousing receptionalities is war umbs to those trustees appointed by the United States Britons could be called back and were tion, said it was a great horou to stand to a dog. It works for the glorification of while placing the present control of the patrises, and the whole we ate an of joined by their still-alive but crippled " Enemy Properties Custodian, but this, the same platform as Mr. Havelock Germany, for the Wilson, who had proved himself to be

expansion of the power It is sa much German as business in the hands of the Government our city, it would take a week and a

through the same streets and avenues Germany. worthy to lead the members of the Mer are the legions of Germany on the field, y afects the design of the half of daylight for the sad procession cantile Marine of Britain. Mr. Wilson and

and very much more

enemy

MARKETS OF THE WORLD.

Tho

no

does

should pay for everything he had done.ginal companies of the concern, and the controlled the opera continue to do every fifteen in the overseas dominions.

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and her casualties were 6 per cent. The Dominions and Colonies provided 18 per cant. of the Empire's forces and suffered

per cent, of the total casualties.

WHERE BRITONS FIGIT.

had told them that the scamen of Britain story of the Merton faIOUS

not change the German octopus intended to impose upon the Germans, of the great hietallgesellschaft group is has done, when this war is over the is the story American Government does no more than

into a truly American institution. If the to go by.

MOTHER COUNTRY'S LEAD, Furthermore, since the first four-and- whether with the assistance of the law or which during the ball-century before war trade which flowed formerly down these a-half million soldier of the British not, a boycott until they had purged them had been, by means of a vast system of channels will again resume its normal they included the keenest young man selves of their iniquities, until they had

armies were volunteers, it is certain that paid the

for their crimes inter-related companies, extending 158 course,

octopus tentacles over the metal trade of capital will exert themselves for the benefit sities alone at the outset of the war there Penalty

American labour and American (Cheers) These words, coming as

hood of the Empire. dr

From the univer- the world till it had a strangle-hold in of the enemy which claration of the intention of the Seamen's

Africa

the manhood of Union of Great Britain, came like a coo England, America, Australia,

Russia, Italy, France, Switzerland,. Bel-America has sworn to destroy. It is not went into service, we are told, some 8,000 vapours of sickly sentimentality which over output, prices, treatment, and this grand firmly into the very heart of into Flanders at the outset of the war to ing breeze sweeping away these minsmic gium-in fact, all over the civilised world by changing names or any auch surface-dergraduates. Among these losses must

scratching methods that

be included practically all the officers and we can destroy

#cient shrouded the vision of many of the people marketing of all the principal base metals.

men of the small but highly' octopus It is only by cutting Regular Army which Great Britain threw. deeply of Britian. This was indeed 'n robust creed, worthy of the men who gave it utterance.

the economic body around whose vitals. When the history of this war came to be A series of great controlling and this foul, cancerous growth has entwined sagage the right wing of the German written its mest glorious page would developing companies in Germany evolved itself Most certainly it is not by army. relate the deeds done by these men to in 1910 into a great combination called the appointing as two of the public trustees than followed the children of her Empire That the mother country has led rather whose cool and steady courage the people Metallbank and Metallurgische Gesells as has been the case in America-thin sacrifice, is shown by the fact that of Great Britain owed their position chaft with a capital of 400,000,000 marks, very men who were the original conspira one man out of every seven and a balf to-day. (Cheers.) Without the stimulus of under the presidency of Dr. Wilhelm tors. Vogelstein and Hothorn. Of course battle, without the panoply of war, they Merton, the German brother of Mr. there are, other trustees who are bond-fde land is in the army, one in every ten of the population of England and of Sept. had gone into the very jaws of death, tot Merton, the Englishman." The Metall American citizens, but we may be quite once but

handred times. (Hear, hear.) bank had large investments in all the sure that Yagelstein and Hothorn, who and a fifth in Wales, one in every twenty- But they had resolved that the

of the business six and a third in Ireland; and one in Mertons, from headquarters in Frankfort, for Germany before, Mr. Havelock Wilson asked

will steer their course cunning the service and sacrifice of a people than pulled the strings of whole group.

Again, no surer test can be found of purgative land of 0 and a kid, then to Pulse has pushed out their vaseles jule ly, avoid any thing calculated in excite make the Germans realise that they could the markets. ofthed in Switzerland, also endeavour to persuade the American. On this basis we find that England and car-comment or arouse suspicion; they will to compare the percentage of casualties (Cheers.)

suffered with the percentage not sin with impunity.

of enlistment Mr.poration was Havelock Wilson had asked him if he under the presidency of Dr. Wilhelm influence is dead. But if nothing further Wales provided 70 per cent. of the enlist-

citizen that all is and that support him. He would. (Cheers.) Merton. would s

This camouflaged the outward any derman ship touched on the Aus-appearance of the purely German nature is done Beer Sendheimer, Hirsch, the ment and suffered 76 per cent of the

casualties, Scotland's enlistment tralian const during the boycott then his cf the combination. This great tentacle Metallgesellschaft. the American Metal hand would have lost its running and his had two names for use in appropriate Company will, after the war, resume that 3 per cent. of the total and her casualties brain would have failed. The enemy had circumstances. It appears sometimes as place in America which it occupied before 10 per cent. Ireland provided e per cent. sunk our ships and sent the seamen to Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Metall-the war. their death. Let them pay the price. werte and sometimes as Société Buisse

AT THE CROSS-ROADS OF DESTINY, There was no other way by which they pour Valeurs des Metaux, but its direc of this country: Here Martons represent

"What

is true of America. is doubly true could make any criminal realise his crime. tarate shows that, whether its name those interests; in actual fact they are or which could deter men from

committing French or German, the control is purely those interests. As I have said after four similar crimes.

In answer to the frequent question Nati heard mach about ad German. Then the Merton petopus pussyears of war they are still here. The other (which 18 Where are the British

by the

way, in Hun осеал, isions of a world which, wesland formed

and men painted ed out a tentacle across the farthest

wholly German company.

day the Board of Trade refused a license propaganda)

troops 1 Mertons They cannot now openly buy that, they are fighting on

the War Commission replies purged of war. When we had cleared the Australia.

labelled it the Austra They

seventeen jungle and made this beast understand lian Metal Company.

or sell metals. But if the people of The GermÊÈLE that would come;

we were stronger than it, then peace manager assumed the cloak of naturalia country imagine for one moment that by separate fronts scattered throughout the world: Outside of Belgium and France, good Australian such an expedient as this the great. Ger. British troops have been fighting in Italy, but until then those words tion and became were but visions

It was a clear and citizen. By all the devices of unfair com- organisation in our midst can be in Servia, in Greece, in Bussia, in North, definite policy, it was cold, calm reasory petition it forced nearly all the Australian paradise of fools. I have been informed East, and West Africa, and in China:

"destroyed they are indeed living in and-death struggle. We must destroy the and scrap their plant. It swallowed, the license to buy or sell metals, & firm in climatic difficulties extremely difficult applied to the circumstances of this life smelting companies to close their mouths that after Mertons had been refused a while simultaneously they have carried ou

elaborate, extensive, and, because of German wherever we found him on the industry It dictated the terms upon land, in the air, on the sea, and under the which, it should carry on. It was the this country which had contracted to seil campaigns in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Ben We should destroy him whether he industry. Into the great Republic of Board of Trade asking what it should do, the British Navy it is superfluous to

"a parcel of metal to Mertons wrote to the was in our midst, camouflaged by a thou America the Metallgesellschaft, Mertons whether it should carry out its contract

Of the debt of the whole alliance to Germany could have over- most powerful

them to do so.

thrown of course the American Metal Company but if it is, then it is very evident that be master of Europe, and her fleets and

I hope this is not true, What they did in Australia and Britain

the refusal of a license in

armies would be thundering at the gates and elsewhere they did in America. Mer

the merest of America. Under the protection of its tons of Frankfort held 49 per cent. of the amouflage, and that even now, by one fleet, the British merchant marine bas shares. Mertons in London held 297 par

means or other, Mertons is still to be

*13,000,000 Continuing Mr. Hughes said: au crot, and the balance was principally permitted to carry on. But whether that borsported going to speak to you to-night about purgebeld by hyphenated Germans in America, the corrosive acid of drastic action all tons of oil and fuel and 130,000,000 tona 2,000,000 be so or not, until we have destroyed by 25,000,000 tons of explosives, 50,000,000 and males, 600,000 Tehicles, ing this Empire of all German influence

a sprinkling of band-fide Americana, task which, although it has been long shop window to deceive the people of the and of all German interests. It is a great who were put into the very front of the amy influence in this country we cannot of food and other stores.

hope to be industrially safe.. For what neglected, must be done in order that Republic. Mertons of London were the things I have applies to many other

applies to metals Labour may come into its ringdom, and

spoken of metals only in order that this nation shall be saved. agents of this enemy firm; they were the because this organisation is perhaps the We must cut out every one of the slimy agents during the three

greatest of the manifestations of that tentacles that have wormed themselves before America came into the struggle; if it

peaceful penetration of into the very vitals of our national life they sold metal to the British Government which. I have spoken so often. It will be no easy task, but it must be during those three years, upon which the hand in 'commerce, done.

We can never get the peace the until we cleanse the national body

of Line

of

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extended out of its

If

sand and one disguises, or on the field of under another tales. They called it or not, and the Board of Trade advised peak British Navy, she would now

battle. Let us begin this League of Nations fairs by punishing this great offender against the peace of the world. (Cheers.)

CLEANSING THE NATIONAL BODT,

with

Усть

Wat

German octopus made huge profits. "shared "thoen” huge profis. They

world wants and is determined to have to bleed the British

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On every

foul growths, and we can never hope to call themselves an English firm producers of our Empire mast live, and

in the face of all these thin they this if we go about the job with kid What they did in America. Australia, and unless gloves on, for the power of Germany

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men,

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ORDERS 18SUED BY ME J. W. FRANKS,

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"QUE DAY." There will be three details for duty on Our Day" at 11.15 a.m; 1.30p.m. and 7 p.m. No

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our midst is great, and its influence manj. Switzerland they did in Afrion, and within the Empire they will most cer. Uniform for 11.15 am and 1.30 p.m fests itself in a thousand subtle and deadly 502 5493. always cunningly cloaked cannot be provided for the P

details. Helmets with Spikes, belts and truncheons. Inspectors to wear awards and cross-belts. Uniform' for 7. detail-cape with covers, belts and truncheons Inspectora to wear patrol uniform (po beltz or swords) with caps.

and finance Geman influence naerts itself.

It is time we acted, and in a fashion that

will prove effective After all, the market is provided for them seek one outside it But auch a German nationality and true pur ducer of raw materials unless in turn a ways. I have occasions about thing on previous pose by naturalisation. In America they market is provided for the manufacturer.

said som

matter. "have spoken of Mertons-that German firman; bate in Britain, British; Italy; How will it affect wages? How will it became American; in Australia Austra (Cheers) How does this concern Labour? with an English name and I shall con- Italian: Russia, Russian. The list of tinue to speak of this firm and others of the other Merton cetopus, or Metall provide employment? These are the ques affect working conditions How will i which it is a type until they are driven out of Britain, and their induence for lschaft, concerns in France,

in Mexico, in Africa--all tents are the standards.

tions which Labour must ask itself. These "evil" destroyed root and branch. 1. I thall speak of them to-night, but before doing ibating to the same German domination adopts after this war gives new Ile to

a of the German ectopus and all, con-

which it must judge There policy. For the policy which Britain. so let me tell you what we have done, in Australia-not talked of doing, mark

too large for recital. They are part or sounds the death knell of, done to rid ourselves of the bination in existence. but

parcel of the greatest German com- Labour. We must rid ourselves of enemy organised They are inter-control, enemy

within

gales and to destroy locked, with hundred companies in

we must

investments for his influence

Provide our national

and economic hundred way Arms like

our own capital, and employment for our linked life Australia is a great metal-producing

up with own labour. We must ensure an adequate country, and before the war the

Germai

Sendheimer Aron Hirsch & Co., and with them Imperial question: We must furnish BERGEANT'S ROMANTIC CABEER,

of raw materials. This is an Well, we have changed all the. We have controlled the lead, zinc and copper market for our primary producers zada control over our metals was complete established a

markets of the world. exchange, and all

gone!

You

with

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in

The number of market for our manufacturers We

BATURDAY, 28TH OCTOBER will be obe detail for duty at Baco Course at 1:30 pm. Uniform helmets with spikes, belts and truncheons. Inspector will wear sword and cross-belt. Hoogkong, Bird October 1918.

metal

be natural born British great companies involved in this great freeing Ourselves of moet Staff Sergeant W. P. Payre, Austral- bersing destroyed the influence combination runs into hundreds, and the ****

adopt that policy without which not only ian Imperial Force, for whom cottage. of Germany in our economic life, we have coital controls into hundreds of the Labour movement in this country butt Darlington, New South Wales, has

further, and probibited his inter millions. POLITICAL INÝLÜTENCE.

the nation itself must go down. (Cheers) recently been erected by voluntary labour, thing that have taken away the Iran-that the power and influence of this great listen to the voice of the ference in our political and national liffe,

Labour in Britain, stands industrially at and who has a wife and three children. once a German always a Bat it is not by auch bald statements the cross roads of its destiny. It may the military service. Five of his brother

has had an amazingly romantic career in pacifist and chise not only from the naturalised Ger- German organisation can be properly to its doom; it may follow the road lead were killed at Mone, one at Eallecourt, man, but also at the last referendum, portrayed, for power begets power, ing to industrial stagnation and national another elsewhere in France, and two in from the first generation of those born of influence begets influence,

and the German parents in Australia, Chers) influence of the Metallgesellschaft spread petition for jobs than that which Labour brother lost a leg at Mons. The father ruin, to unemployment, to a fiercer com the Boer War, while his only living When I urge you here to take action itself over, not only the financial, com against the enemy in our midat I only and industrial, but alicev, com-new before the war; to lower wages, and of this family of eleven fighters, more

industrial chaos. The other leads to is a lieutenant-colonel in charge of ank you to do that which Austrália has

and national spheres. In some national and industrial stability, industry Bisley rifle range. Bergeant Payne en

over

done long ago, for if the heart of the notably those of Italy and freed from enemy control, independent in fisted in Bydney in August, 1914, the day

Empire

be poisoned with German Russia, they were able to bend the Legis all things with an ample supply of rew after war was declared: he took Fart in influence, how can the extremities of the lature to their will and mould the fiscal materials, and a sure market, to labouring the famous landing at Gallipoli, and was 50 ct Imperial body be clean f

policies to suit their purposes. No law conditions, which are good, and wages wounded. Later he was blown up by 4 POWERFUL TRADE ORGANIZATIONS,, could touch them, for they were above the which are high; to = great or more power

law sad over those who made the laws, ful organisation for Labour; to political shell and was rendered blind for nine Now let me come to Mertons. As I have We in Australia have acted; the United power; to all those things for which you weeks, dest for ten weeks, and dumb for said, in Australia we have completely States Government has now taken action hava so long fought (Loud cheers) forty-one months. He regained his speech destroyed the metal octopus. Every Ger- and seized the business of Bendheimer, and The resolution was put, and carried in a Brdoey Theatre by the startling man has been removed from the share Aron Hirsch, who, along with Mertons, unanimously, with the utmost enthusiasm, effect of a stage episode.

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