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... contribution of Great Britain to the Alliance. A Man-Power Board that drafted men blindly into the Army at the expense of the mines or the munition works, of the farms or the shipyards, would be doing far better service to the enemy than to our own nation ...
... employers, but Jack on the ocean—their own kith and kin who are fighting for the country. What has been your reception in the mining valleys so far? I am really pleased with the campaign. We have had fifteen or twenty meetings, and the men are splendid ...
... that our Government does not believe in the principle of no annexations, no indemnitics, and the right of nations to deter- mine thetr own cesiinies - SieLF-DE TI Of course, our Government does not believe In these things. If it did, it would scrap the ...
... Controller accepts the Controller's proposal limit the age from eighteen to twenty-five, and stipulates that men taken from the mines for the Army should be selected through the Colliery Recruiting Committee. ...
... satisfactory. It is true that nearly 29,000 men voted in favour of a strike policy, but it must not be forgotten that these mines have been inundated with a great number of the type of young man who is anxious to escape military service, and also that pacifism ...
... combing out vigorously in all directions. Among others it combed the equivalent of a couple of army corps or so from the mines—l believe the number has been given officially as 75,000, if not more. As the result of this comb, we have a coal shortage ...
... bucks to the wall,” and we have lately been made aware of the difficulty releasing the 75,000 men combed out from the coal mines because of the other difficulty replacing them. Further, the air is rife with official appeals miners and public alike their ...
... MEN OF 41 TO 50. The posters inviting men from 41 to 50 to join the colours are beiNt printed, and will probably be Mined on TuesdnY• Mere is no intention to press the ap pe al other than be poster, a War t).e official yesterday. Men who join will be ...
... compound itself is a large enclosure su unded by single-storey buildings for the accommodation of t natives engaged on the mine, and the whitewashed walls prow ed a fitting background for the sable satellites. A nativ&•eakertainment is depicted in which ...
... railways or in the mines. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain have several times denionstratecl their willingness to help the Government in a practical way in meeting a proved need, and even in South Wales, the storm centre of the mining world, that attitude ...
... ZS in cigars; perhaps they read one month in a screaming Governmental organ that skulking miners must he combed out of the mines and put in the Army; and another month that these same miners (a coal crisis having meantime been pre(ipitated). must be combed ...
... Jast week. And nov we shall all sit down for a coupl of years and argue which of th five ways to follow. An M.P. friend of mine tells m that the doctor has ordered hi complete mental rest. Well—le him etiek to Miss Madge ‘Trevo who is now appearin at ...