The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-20
PATRIOTISM AROUSED
AMONG BRITISH

s5.ss AmUN0 0hl1l0d
Continued from Page IL
busy and let's slaughter"
And SO, Ben Tillett, who before the
war hated capital like "Bill'' Hay
wood, fought industrial expressions
like q Meyer and inflamed workmen
against both like Mother" Jones,
has transferred his hate and fight
ing capabilities to the Germans and
is telling British Workmen from plat
forms and soap boxes to get into the
game. 4:
While Lloyd George, the new min
lister of munitions, is mobilizing in
dustry, Tillett is mobilizing labor and
to use his own expression, he's
preaching organized bloody mur-
DER
t Listen to Tillett. :
Laborers who refused to listen to
members of the British cabinet who
have been speaking throughout Eng
land on the need Of national defense
are listening to Tillett. Tillett is one
of them and they believe what he
says. NJ ..-
Tillett has just returned from
Northern France where he saw the
German menace, chatted with some
Of the men who have followed him
in former strikes but who are now in
khaki, lunched with General French
and studied the situation with his
own eyes. --~-zzs:- -.
1--WE learned that there is an
| other meaning to the work strike
now," Tillett is telling his audiences
in England.
Tillett, however, is telling the gov
ernment something with no less We
hemence.: While he is organizing his
strike against Germany the manufac-
turers and capitalists of England
must play the game.
Must Protect Workmen.
"The WOrkmen must be assured
that while they are sweating and
laboring and dying for their country
they are not doing it to fill rich
mems pockets" he says. "The gov
ernment must control the price OF
munitions supplies and food if the
capitalists will not. The capitalists
must be content to take less money
and do more and be controlled by the
government and be content to be con-
trolled."
Tillett brought from the front his
simple picture Of what the govern
ment and the workingman must do
While there he talked to officers hig'l
in the ranks who told him that the
British army was handicapped be.
cause the workmen in England were
hanging back and were not supplying
constant stream of shells.
This made Ben Tillett mad. He
told the officers:
''I'm going home to get those shells
and other things and if the rich mel
play the game there'll be no more
labor troubles. I've promised to tel
the people at home all the truth anG
I'm going to do it. The men will
work. They'll listen to Ben Tillett
They know he'll tell them the sober
truth.
AS soon as Ben Tillett returned
home he started to tell the British
workmen the truth about the situa.
ton over in Northern France. Men
who know British labor say thai
labor troubles in England are over
| The government has started to tell
the rich men what to do. Whether
or not by Ben Tillett's advice, it has
put tax on war profits. The money
that went into the rich mems Golfers
is beginning to come back to the
| government. The price of food is
lower. Bread is costing less. British
labor is solidly listening to what Ben
Tillett has to say and then calmly
trooping off to the recruiting stations
or work shops. Tillett says he is
telling them the truth and they be-