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New Age, Vol. 17, No.14, Aug. 5, 1915 NOTES OF THEWEEK . VIEWS AND REVIEWS: THE SAVING GRACE OF FOREIGNAFFAIRS. By S. Verdad . STUPIDITY. By A. E. R. TOWARDS NATIONAL GUILDS. By “National REVIEWS . Guildsmen’’ . PASTICHE. By P. Selver, P. T. K., Tudor Castle, AMERICANISING THE HYPHENATEDSTATES. By Triboulet, Will Y. Darling, W. M. E. A. B. CURRENTCANT . WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. By Rowland Kenney . IMPRESSIONSOF PARIS. By Alice Morning . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR from C. H. Norman, ONLOVE AND VERACITY. By Ramiro de Maeztu G. D., Harold B. Harrison, George Raffalovich, READERS ANDWRITERS. By R. H. C. Bunsby, E. S. Oaksey, Winifrid Horrabin, MORE LETTERS TO MY NEPHEW-VII. By Ida Hyett . Anthony Farley . PRESS CUTTINGS . NOTES OF THE WEEK. Mr. Asquith was once more at his ease in denouncing IN the debate on the proposal to adjourn Parliament “the calumny that our people had not risen to the for six or seven weeks all the argument was on one height of a great occasion.” In what world does Mr. side. Mr. Asquith’s excuse for closing Parliament was Asquith now live not to realise that the charge of failing one of the feeblest we have ever heard: it was that to rise to the occasion is not brought against our people certain civil servants, engaged in answering but by our people? Here in these columns and in acres Parliamentaryquestions, need a holiday. So they may, and of the Press, the complaint has been made that while so do many of us; but we understood that everybody “our people” have risen miraculously to every sacrificial was called upon to make even exhausting sacrifices demand, the Government has lamentably failed to duringthe period of the war. Is it a reason for shutting persuade the profiteers to get off the nation’s back. This, the nation out of its right of interrogation that the we can assure Mr. Asquith, is the real grievance of officials want a rest? Let the staff work in shifts as public opinion. It is not that the people are ashamed of workmen are expected to do. Discussion is, after all, themselves, or have any reason to be. Hut it is the almost as important to our cause as shells. And not fact that the continuance of profiteering more than usual only to our cause, but to the status of the House of is a cause of bitter resentment and a source of profound Commons itself. It might be imagined that the Government, dissatisfaction. What to our mind, indeed, is the most having peremptorily dismissed Parliament, would marvellous manifestation of the war is the maintenance at least be prepared to accept the whole responsibility of public spirit in the face of the atrocities of our of the conduct of the war. In that event the private profiteers.Disaster upon disaster may reach us from the members might plead not guilty to charges that may be hand of Germany; and they serve only to fortify the brought against them when the conduct of the war national resolution to win in the end. But the disasters comes to be examined by their constituencies. But it inflicted on us by our profiteers are not fortifying, but was plain from the answer of Lord Newton to Lord depressing; and, as we say, it is a wonder we survive Devonport that, in spite of ordering Parliament like them. Mr. Asquith must know, better than anybody, sheep, the Government still means to make it responsible the truth of the matter. How much of his legislation has in the eyes of the public. Not, it seems, to the been aborted and frustrated by influences which he Government was the forty millions expenditure on knows are not those of “our people”? Should the war pensionsdue, but to the pressure of Parliament ! The end at once, none knows better than he that not a instance chances to be one which the Mouse of Commons profiteer in these islands would find himself a penny the can well afford to accept; but what of a thousand worse for the nation’s passage through Armageddon. others? In the coming six weeks, during which Members Every one of them would find himself, on the contrary, will know as little of what is being done as the rich in public credit. But this being the case-and general public, acts may be carried out by the Executive nobody can deny it-the hypocrisy is evident that for which the House of Commons will be made carefullyabsolves “our people” from a charge that is responsible. In France, as guardedly reported, the brought against the profiteers alone. We shall beg in same situation has resulted in the strike of Parliament ; to believe that the Government is not in Capital’s and the Executive has been brought to heel. But here pocket when one Minister, only one, ventures to Parliament is quite content apparently to forgo its denounce the profiteers in terms only half as strong as power while stilI accepting its responsibility. those in which all of them denounce the working men. The astonishing thing is that the public is not as that this is the case. He has made our point for us. articulate as its feelings deserve to be. There are Surely the tongue of the nation will now be found, animals, we are told-the rabbit perhaps is one of them and the profiteers brought to book. Can -that utter a sound only when in the direst peril. *** it be that our public is such a creature? Certain it is that nobody who goes among the people can doubt that It is not only upon production that the continuance of the detestation of profiteering prevails almost universally. profiteering has a malign influence, but upon the Yet not only can Mr. Asquith ignore the subject; but spirit of the nation as shown in the opposition to forced Mr. Lloyd George in his speeches intended directly for national service. We may be sure that the diminution Labour can ignore it as well. If it were the case that of a quarter from the maximum potential of shell- by ignoring the fact, the fact would cease to influence output is an index of the diminution recruiting in all conduct, statesmanship might consist in their silence. its forms suffers by reason of the existence of the same But on every occasion on which Mr. Lloyd George has cause. As, roughly, one in four of the workmen in tacitly endorsed the continuance of profiteering he has private factories feels himself indisposed to sacrifice loudly complained of the “laxity” of the workman, the his comfort to his employer’s profit, the same proportion sole cause of which is the very system whose name he of civilians eligible for military service may be calculated dare not breathe. In his speech in the House of as indisposed to enlist. In the debate in Parliament commonslast week, for example, he became almost tragical last week some further steps were taken in the on the subject of the retention by the men of certain discussion, towards conscription. With the main restrictive Trade Union customs. These, he said, arguments of the speakers we must perforce agree. But were responsible for the shortage of production by the observations we have made before are unfortunately twenty-five per cent. of its potential maximum. But still in order. In the first place, conscription in our surely it is his business to go further and to discover opinion would be totally unnecessary if the State were the reason for their retention. If production is to deserve more service than it now receives, by actuallybeing reduced by a quarter owing to the conduct of demonstratingits equity as between the working and the Trade Unionists, the sooner the cause is discovered and profiteering classes. Not a doubt about it but that the remedied the better. But what is the cause? It is not Army would be filled to overflowing on the morrow of necessary to look a long while for it. Nor need it be the day on which the Government announced1 that no sought in the vices of the workmen or in their ignorance war profits should be permitted to be made or kept. of the seriousness of the national situation. It is to be In the second place, we are absolutely certain that if found in the simple fact that they are aware that for profiteering is allowed to continue, compulsion cannot every additional exertion they make on behalf of the be applied to the twenty-five per cent. of men now State, the profiteer draws a private commission. What unenlisted.After all, what has happened in the sphere of the they would need to be to work their maximum under factories? There it has been found that the Munitions these circumstances is either gods or idiots. Being Act, with all its sanctions, was powerless to force a human, however, they compromise. Yet if Mr. Lloyd single man down the mines. It may be observed that, George is serious in wishing to increase the output, in deploring the loss of twenty-five per cent. of shell- here is the means-commandeer every munitions-factory production, Mr. Lloyd George did not venture to and put managers and men under national orders. We threaten to apply compulsion to the Unions. But if should have as little then to complain of in our compulsion cannot be applied to the minority of the industrial army as in our military army. Unions it cannot be applied to the minority of the men *** of the nation-for the two are of the same spirit.
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