No doubt Mr. Smillie and company will persist. We wonder
how long decent British working men will allow their Trade Unions to be brought into disrepute by this kind of mockery. What the " Triple Alliance " aims at is using its tremendous power to hold up the whole trade of the country in order to impose upon the Government points of policy in which a very small minority of the nation believe. If you aeked the ordinary working man whether he thought that we ought to allow the Germans to walk over us after all in order that some theory about the principle of Conscription should be-satis- fied, or whether he approved of the conscientious objector who looked on while his mates did the fighting, he would laugh at your questions if he did not violently resent your impudence. Yet through not making his voice heard, or through not having elected leaders who dare stand up to the extaeme element; the working man is continually being brought into these humiliating situations.
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