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MR ROBERT SMILLIE.
A CHARACTER STUDY.
Mr. Masterman writes in the Westminster Gazette as follows:-
Mr Smillie is in the general opinion an enigma. Some fear him frankly as a Bolshevik leader. Others wonder why. when now no longer young, he has achieved so little political! success. Others hail him as a future Prime Minister in aj Labour Parliament. What' manner of man is this, who seems to many something of a patent in the Labour world?
He lives with his wife and children in a little house. at Larkball, the centre of that Mid-Lanark mining district which, next to the battlefields of Flanders. is probably the most desolate region in Europe. He started life in the pit, and passed without special preparation, be- yond self-education, through the ordinary machinery of trade union officialism, to the supreme position in the mining world. He has made himself by study and natural talent one of the ablest controversialists in all the technic- al details of the mining profession, For years no Commission cr Com- mittee dealing with such subjects was complete without him.
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If you wish to know how Mr. Smillie learnt that power of re-others have sought it. He has lentless cross-examination which never been a "popolar speaker. so astonished the public during and never sought openings for the the sittings of the Coal Com- mission you will find it in those spread of his views on Press or platform. He is not a great enormous volumes of evidence orator, but there is something which dealt with shortening of about the sincerity of the man. hours, improvement of output, in and his personality which carries crease of safety in the mines conviction. He is certainly more The great Commission
on dictatorial than the average Safety in Coal Mines lasted leader of Labour. If he thought many years, and examined
any measure made for Labour's hundreds of witnesses. Mr. Smil-advancement he would insist on te for the men, Sir Thomas Rad-it, even if it were unpopular with cliffe Ellis for the owners, and Labour itself.
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Sir Richard Redmayne for the
Mr. Smilie has been too fre Home Office were the three out- standing figures in it. I was in quently described by the too charge of the Coal Mines Safety frequently used adjective" dour Bill in 1911 which put the recom-He is Scotch of the Scotch, with mendations of the Commission some of the devotion to into law. We debated through interminable Committees a Rill of Imore than a hundred clauses.
the
earlier simplicities and a strain of sadness in him, due possibly to Celtic origin.
He lives, like so many Scottish
in
To most of the Committee--and many of the representatives both families, with his grown-up in a community ruled of owners and mea in it--the sons-
by his wife technical details were "jargon." absolutely The very language of debate was all domestic affairs. One of these a volunteer fighter in scarcely intelligible vutside, sons was Those who knew were outside the Army. Another was a con- the Committee. At the end of the scientious objectior. Such diver
made no room Mr. Smillie would stand on gence of opinion one side, Sir T. Radcliffe Ellis on difference to the household har- the other gazing through weari-mony. His grest enthusiasm is, some debate, with sphinx-like for education, and if he had ever inbassiveness, at the mess their desired money it would it would respective representatives were have been to Bend his children to the University. He desires making of their arguments.
education for its own seke..
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NO SYMPATHY WITH BERLIN.
We are just an ordinary English divifion, and having had the honour of being selected as part of the Army of Occupation we had to "leg" it all the way to the Rhine no trains or lorries for us (writes A British Soldier" to the London Daily News: from Somewhere in Germany “). ・・・
Lowever, the march had its compensations and has been very interesting on the whole, in spite
of the bad weather, as it enabled us to study the inhabitants and the country generally. ***
Our billets have varier sfrom, castles to cottages and although we missed the big towns, wa passed through several small ones. Many of the villages in the Rhine Provinces are clean and pictures- que, but other are ameliydirty. and insanitary-and yet they all have electric light..
The psychology of the country folk of the occupied districts pre- sents an interesting problem. We have neither experienced nor heard of a single "hostile act; on the contrary, many go out of their way to make us comfortable. They claim that the Rhine pro- vinces never wanted the war, and roar with laughter at the caricat- ures of the Kaiser and Crown Prince in our illustrated papers.
The people still appear to cherish agenuine affection for the ex-Kaiser, and make Ludendorff the scapegoat; but they do not want the Kaiser back. There is a sufficiency of food. and prices compare favourably with those prevailing in country districts in England.
The folk also pretend that they know extraordinarily little about the war. They are incredulous when told of the atrocities com- mitted by Germans, and at Erst refuse to believe them. After de- finite proof they hold up their hands in horror.
Eren a Count, a cousin of a former Ambassador to London, professed to know "nothing about their crimes in Belgium and France or of the Hun cruelties to our prisoners. They refuse to believe that their name is loathed all over the civilised world, or that civilised nations will have nothing to do with them until they have made full reparation for their crimes.
In one small town our corps commander told the leading in- habitants the restrictions he in- tended imposing upon them. They were satisfied. Then he told them
the terms he might have to im- pose. The men, addressed were horrified, and protested that such conditious were impossible; and not compatible with their honour. The corps commander ther produced the original of one of their own proclamations to a Belgian town in the early days of the war and explained that he was only reading out what the Germans themselves had actually imposed upon the Belgians! They were speechless.
Many of them try their best to show that they have no sympathy with Berlin, but few carry it to the length of the man in one village who naively inquired which part of the Rhine Provinces Great Britain was going to annex permanently, as that was where The proposed to settle down!
more ashamed of themselves than ever. There were fine dres- sing-rooms and an ample place for refreshments.
These months of negotiation filled me with admiration for the intellect as well as the character of these two men. - Between them, for many years, they had dominated the mining world. Each had opposed the other: Each had a respect for the other.. Each I think had a liking for the other. Both of them, had they early obtained admission to Par- liament, would have attained high built a little town at the place Because there was a war they place in alternative Governments.called Gretna. Years ago Gretna But Mr. Smillie's essays in the was famous for its high-speed political field have invariably marriages. I am inclined to think proved disastrous.. Few politic that the generations to come will ians have fought more forlorn consider it notable because it was hopes or lost more elections. at Gretna that a Government He has been rejected by many first recognised and admitted the constituencies. Above all-and cash value of happiness. And this he felt most he has been this is how it happened (writes twice rejected by his own people. Harold Lake in the Daily Mat)....... Mid-Lanark would not have him
You are probably aware that a for its member. His Scottish miners voted for the Radical groat munition factory was esta blished at Gretna. Since the against their own secretary.
place is quite a number of miles Many explanations have been from anywhere it was found given for this result. In part it necessary to make homes on the was due to the firm, inherited spot for the workers. First huts strength of Scottish Radicalism were built and later on some Mr. Smillie, like his friend Keir admirable houses. But at first Hardie, denounced the whole there was no really serious et- thing as a humbug and a frand.tempt to keep the inhabitants of Perhaps he thought that only by the huts and houses cheerful. destroying Radicalism could Labour, arise triumphant cut of Enthusiastic war workers went the ashes. Whatever the motive, they could and endured it as to Gretna, worked as hard as LONDON DIRECTORY, it killed his political career. He long £8 they
And could. was offered a perfectly safe seat
however."Tomantic the past of in an adjoining constituency with Gretna may have
been, its no Liberal opposition. He refused present is not enthralling. They the offer as partaking of a
We had to, was the promp graw desperately weary of it, and compromise.
remembered that it was quite reply. Our girls have been His life is one of simplicity possible to make munitions and splendid, and you couldn't im He appears to have no desire for ret live within reach of civilis agine better worker. But the money. He could have obtained ation. They went back to
couldn't stand a place like this if any sums he chose to ask for civilisation and a fresh lot of en- they hadn't a chance to enjoy interviews and articles during the thusiasts arrived, to undergo the themselves now and then, Before we had these halls they used to crisis of the past few months. same process of deflation. So The interview would have the people who look after Greinuclear out just as they were getting been arranged for his conveni- got worried and did a little useful but afterwards you ence and the articles only awaited furious thinking. W his signature.
Other Labour I stood in a big, beautiful ball leaders have been sprawling At one end there was an ample themselves over all the capital stage, fitted with everything that latic" especially, the Tory the organiser of theatricals could Voogy of the directory will be sent by posilent was the one man whose chairs to sest 1,100 people,
Press The, one man who kept desire. The door would hold receipt of glowest order for i ́10:9′′
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