Last Saturday at Bristol Mr. Lloyd George spoke to a
meeting representative of the engineering trades in the West Country. Victory, he said, was impossible without the help of the engineers at home. Many engineers had gone to the front, but they were being recalled. They would be more useful at home His chief message was to the Trade Unions as organizations. He earnestly appealed to them to let tin- skilled workmen, girls—any one and every one who could help—take their part in the factories. It was essential to suspend during the war the ordinary Trade Union regulations. Contractors, on their side, must not be allowed to pilfer labour from one another. As at Cardiff, Mr. Lloyd George raised his audience to great enthusiasm. All his phrases were supremely vivid and telling " God alone knows what our troops have got to face. Let them hear the ringing in the forges of Great Britain of the hammer on the anvil, the machinery going, the lathes whirring ; and then they will say ' Our fellows are behind us. Let us go forward.' . . You saw what happened at Neuve Chapelle. We rained shot upon them, and our men got through. But then we had to pause. Wo want a deluge of Native Chapelles that will rain for forty days and forty nights without ceasing."
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