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wee
t o i le a ler
)een a strong majority for
z-ts not surprised at the im1)ii of tile- conscriptionists in
to intimidate loc4l electors.
duals had at the very doors
th given raen and women
acting them to vote Yes. If
lscriptionists had done anythat the pc lice would have
Lem. He wanted to know
ctor Miller and Sergeant
going to do with the BarLeague. The law had been
d if the officials were not
tke action it was time the
P the Barrier went on with
s. If prosecutions were not
)y the people whose duty it
ad to be to see that the law
it would clearly demonthe authorities were on the
conscriptionists.
air went on to refer to other
incidents of Saturday, and
with the campaign in South
nentioned that the wife of
r, Mrs. Vaughan, when adcrowd of factory girls, asked
member NIP:se Cavell. One
replied, "We would sooner
Skeffington and Connolly."
supposed to have a. Labor
Broken Hill, but what did
of Moonta say when he was
24 a. meeting to form a
he National Service League?
read the following report
, People's Weekly" :1- of Aloonta, in 'his report at
Council meeting, said: "I
rdoned at this juncture for
on the great question of conith which the military atmopresent blurred. Regarding the
gun war which has been fierceimething over two years, it can
'd that the Commonwealth of
as contributed nobly in men
in comparison with her
and I venture the opinion
system of voluntary enlistllowed to continue a sufficient,
aI n would have been fortheomup the demands for filling the
if it is self-evident that Prime
ighes, while in England, in a
Overheated. patriotism and
chsafed to the authorities a
ich he now finds difficult to
sonally, I feel I would prefer
ailed to toe the fighting line
kny age, than be a party to
iother man's son, and force
front, especially those who
go volunteered for enlistment
..ejected as 'physically unfit,
re at Ra.dina on Monday, of superficial medical examinafully passed as fit to take
in the fighting line.
Conilsted in on tliose lines will
nirch Australia's hitherto uncutcheon."
,ey: Are we to understand
ayot will not call a public
discuss Conscription ?--The
lair said he was convinced
was going to go -on with
o matter how the referenHe might possibly lie
months and then raise a
ision scare. Hughes primed industrial conscription.
already told them that if
NO ten thousand times he
r with the business, so to-
t 111
,riii ilk,
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ly if anti-conscriptionists bad any back- were sung, and the meeting terminated
bone. Victories in the past had not been amid scenes of enthusiaSm..
won by the majority. but by an intelli(F. E. Wenzel, "Barrier Daily Truth"
gent and militant minority. They should office, Broken Hill. )
r:ot permit the privileges they hatl won in
he past to be ruthlessly torn from them
'b„y a gang of bondon financiers. Stormy
times were ahead, and stormier times still
NIGHT RALLY.
for the conscriptionists, if the antis had
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the courage of their convictions, and were
prepartd to uphold them. A "yes" majoMEETING AT TRADES HALL.
rity should make the antis fight ten times
harder, because they would know full
,well that the majority had been
obtained by the most damnable Another great demonstration was held
and contemptible methods ever at the Trades Hall last night, under the
known in the history of Australia. auspices of the Barrier Labor Federation.
In no previous election had any side been Mr. M. A. Smedley (president of the,
subjected to such grave and dangerous 11.L.F.) presided. The hall was crowded
disabilities.
Personally, he denied the to the doors, and hundreds were turned
right of any majority to take away his away.
life.
It was just as reasonable to say
Mr. George Dale said that the line of de-'
that the majority could decide whether marcation between the two parties was
all men and women should be Roman daily becoming more intense.
Hughes
Catholies.
What a howl there would was daily doing things that even a man
be if they took a referendum to decide like Cromwell never dared to do.
The
whether the parsons should 'be placed in resignations from the Cabinet were sigdungarees and sent, down into the mines nificant.
The people were, however, heto earn, their living.
Despite all this, ginning to wake up. .He would ask them
however, if every person remained true to be prepared for the worst, and to take
and loyal to his class the designs of action without hesitation when the critiHughes would be frustrated.
cal moment came. (cheers.)
The chairman then announced -the laMr. Sherrington said that the master
class, realising that certain men had the test figures of the 'ballot, which -wc4(k
intelligence and courage" to awaken the loudly cheered.
Mr. E. A. Sinelair said that the fit
workers, had resolved to put them out of
the way.
For all that was happening had to be finished where it had statteds-'-they should blame the social system on the industrial field. The issue ir a
Which permitted of wars and the con- one clearly betweenthe two classes—the
boss and his toots on one* side, and , the
scription of human lives.
The result of
Mr. McLaughlin said that many things workers on the other.
could be reviewed from the ballot. When the conscription ballot meant either the
they were on strike for 44 hours Hughes. death knell of capitalism or the obliteraon the eve of his departure for London, tion of working class organisation. When
deplored their action, and called them all this- fight is won there were still other big
the pro-Germans he could lay his tongue battles to fight, and the organisation that
to.
He also intimated' that on his re- they had built up during thiS struggle
turn from England he 'would attack the must not be allowed to lapse.
Mrs. Mortimer said that the strenuous
r.w.w. with the ferocity of a Bengal
tiger.
He had it on reliable authority work of the past week had left some of
that Hughes' residence was guarded by them satisfied and some of them dissa.tisShe was among the dissatisfied
an army of police, and that he never went fied.
out without his wife and the baby in his ones, because she thought that the majorarms.
If that was the ferocity of a ity for "No" was not heavy enough to
Bengal tiger. he was sorry for the tiger. make a very notable change in the attiBut the
Men were in gaol to-day awaiting trial tude of the Prime Minister.
on various charges, but if the workers position might be stronger even yet. She
were class conscious they need not take b-elieved that it would be necessary for
into consideration the accusations laid the women to stick together and continue
She deprecated the personby the master class against the most de- to organise.
termined and militant fighters for the alities which had been introduced,, but
emancipation of the working class. The whatever the outcome of those things, it
capitalists had always declared "my coun- behoved them to continue the fight. (ApThe talk of the equality of
try. right or wrong," and the workers plause.)
should say, -my class, right or wrong." women was worn threadbare----the misand defy them.
Eight men had been sions of men and women were identical.
arrested in Western Australia for exer- The duty of women was not destruction,
War would not cease
cising their right of free speech, and be- but construction.
cause the
stood for industrial until the workers made war upon war.
and not political action.
Among those (Applause.) The will of the people must
men was Monty Miller, f34 years of prevail, and they would have to show the
age, a veteran of the Eureka stockade. Federal Ministers. just what the will of
In the people and the
That. was the humanity of the masters. the people was.
When Price gave his famous order, "Shoot will of the people there w,as strengthlow and lay 'em out," the workers had let them rise to the occasion and use it.
said, "wait until we get -the reigns of po- (Loud applause.)
MT. J. J. Brookfield said he did not look
litical power."
They had had the political power. but what had it benefited ni. on the result of the ballot with a:my
them?
The
politicians
ranted dismay. They did not slink from the
about
their
State
institutions, fight in the early etages of the fight, when
such as the post office, but telegrams they did not know what the attitude Of
and letters might be chucked into the the people was, and they would not si in
waste paper basket and the good money from if in the future. The speaker reof, the senders confiscated. The corres- ferred to, his action in preventing. mempondence of the master class was never bers of the B.E.L. from unlawfully e,ninterfered with. because State owner- dem vorixig to. )-flu `tip.,(- votor o ollts•cirle the
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