AN APPEAL TO FARMERS. GOVERNMENT'S PLAN OF FIXED PACES. Mr. Prothero, President of the Board of Agrieultuse ' ..

... seriously imperil the milk production. As to the labour problem, it was proposed to make use of German prisoners and conscientious objectors; and it was anticipated.that there would be numbers of men from Mr. Nevile Chamberlain's Man Power operations. -They ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 711 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TAUNTON TOWN 00111ICIL. WAR BONI'S REFUSED A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR. The Mayor (Alderman H. J. Van Trump) ..

... presumed every Englishman of military age to be a soldier, but allowed conscientious objectors to undertake work of national importance. The general opinion was that a conscientious objector should not work under more favourable conditions and be in u better ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 571 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Socialism and Pacifism

... Socialism and Pacifism. Our friend Fenner Brockway utilised his time, while in Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector, by writing a brochure on the relations of Socialism to Pacifism, which the National Labour Press is to publish. We shall be curious ...

Published: Thursday 18 January 1917
Newspaper: Justice
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

HOUSEHOLD LINEN AND CARPET WAREHOUSE

... now in Stock. LONDON HOUSE, GLASTONBURY. ESTABLISHED 1881. SOMERBETSHIBE PERMANENT BENEFIT BUILDING- SOCIETY, ~t CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR BEFORE TAUNTON MAGISTRATES. A TEST CASE. Stanley Augustus Fern, of 39, Alma Street, Taunton, an assistant master, ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 1668 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DURING PROHIBITED HOURS

... against Sir Humphrey de Trafford, of 11111 Crest, Market Barborough. I should probably have been shot by now, said a conscientious objector to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Appeal Tribunal when asked what he would do if he were in Germany. Nearly 30,000 ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1917
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 474 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

& ENLIST RESULTS OF WHIST DRIVE

... ending 31st December last. The percentages for the Axbridge Tribunal, where there were 1,707 applications (27 being conscientious objectors) are: Granted conditional or absolute exemption, 37.0; exempted over two months, 31.9; exempted for two months and ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 805 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TAUNTON SCHOOLMASTER'S

... Taunton en Saturday, Mr. Willian Brown, of Wiveliscombs (a member of the Society of Friends), mentioned the case of a conscientious objector, named Stanley Fern, an assistant schoolmaster, of Taunton, who was in April last granted exemption by that Tribunal ...

Published: Friday 02 February 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 395 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ROYAL VISIT TO EXPLOSION AREA

... who were injured by the explosion. Willesden is paying 820.000 a yeas or a sixpenny rate for war bonuses and pay. Conscientious objectors in the Manchester district are to be employed compulsorily ow the land under a civil guard. Colonel E. P. Johnson ...

Published: Saturday 10 February 1917
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

RIV 7 ID THE BOOKSHOP

... chapters in which Lansbury attacks capitalism. He might, however, have spared us the page or two of slop over the conscientious objectors. Many of these, if not most, are no doubt standing for the right to follow the light of one's own consciente ; ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1917
Newspaper: Justice
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1386 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

01131. E PROOF THAT THE ALLIES WILL

... EXCEPTIONAL CASE.—DUringz the hearing of an appeal on Wednesday at Middlesex County Appeal Tribunal, the fisher of a young conscientious objector, addressing the ` Chairman 511 r. Herbert Nield, M.P.), said that be was a convict, that he left Millbank in tBS6 ...

OBJECTOR'S HOT RIFLE!'

... OBJECTOR'S HOT RIFLE!' The vicar of my parish advised me to stifle my oonscience, said a conscientious objector at Dudley Tribunal. He tried to do it, be added, by joining the Volunteer Corr. but directly be put a rifle in his hand it seemed red-hot ...

Published: Saturday 24 February 1917
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 60 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MUNDY'S

... recently been visited by his parents. Conscientious Objector.—As a result of some smart work on the part of the Street police, acting on the request of the military authorities Weston Mr. T. Ashcroft, a conscientious objector formerly of Glastonbury was recently ...

Published: Friday 02 March 1917
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 475 | Page: 6 | Tags: none