31 JULY 1915, Page 2

Referring to Trade Union restrictions, Mr. Lloyd George added that

be was told the men could easily turn out twenty- five per cent. more shot and shell and war materials if they would shake themselves free from the domination of practices which had controlled their action in peace times. This, he de- clared, was a very serious matter, and he appealed to the Trade Union leaders to bring all the 'pressure they could to persuade the men to relax those rules and practices, and fling the whole of their energies into turning out munitions of war. Finally, he warned plotters and plotmongers to keep their bands and their tongues off the Ministry of Munitions, and begged that they might be allowed to get on with their work.