Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-09
LIBERAL Tory Cabinet in Peril the Public Disgust Increa

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they could do In the army. NUM-
uohs workers. coal miners, sailors
pubilc employees and railway men, Of
course. obtained exemption, but st
did agricultural laborers, workers OF
al kinds OF export goods. including
luxurios. and more than three hun.
drod and fifty trades were STARRED"
many Of which seom to have little OF
nothing to do with the war.
This army OF reserve men. single
ana married, Is 80 large that the
number OF single conscripts obtained
has been extremely small and the
elderly attested married men, most OF
whom believed they would never be
called up. are convinced that they
have been trickcd and betrayed. The
government Is already drastically re-
Nlsing the lists OF reserved trades and
releasing single men for tho army,
anc Is seeking to replace able bodied
single men OF military age VINO are
engaged In import Mt work by elder
~ or unfit men or by women But
the organization foi dealing with the
problem IL defective, and every at
tested married man II he looks about
him gees cases OF Injustice or appar-
tnt favoritism. Heaven help tho
government" said l. member of par
Lament to me. 'in gny district where
the attested men have chance to
vote before they are whisked into the
| aymyi"
Then the air Issue Is burning one
People cannot understand why Zep-
pelins are allowed to roam about the
| country apparently at will, and why
the government is helpless either to
brirg them down or to retalate in
| Eird on The Germans. Arguments
That the Ieppelins are of no military
Importance, that rot enough guns
can be provided for defense because
| thty are needed In France that the
best aeroplanc pilcts must be at the
front and not held back to protect
the Civilians, sound convincing in par
lament. and | believe the govern
mont Is doing all 1t can. but cool rea-
son'ng and logic don't 20 far in a city,
n town. or Village which has seen
death raining on helpless women and
children from the clC Cuds. watched the
removal of manglcd bodies, and been
iominded daily Of the tragedies by the
Sight OF wrecked homes. Pemho rton-
Filling won his seat on the Zeppelin
Issue. and he did not use a single ar
gnment against the government that
would convince man whose feelings
had not been wrought upon.
Feel Like Scrfs.
discomfort in the Midlands with the
working Of the munitions act con-
times. Men feel that the government
mas turned them into scrfs, working
under compulsiDn of the state for the
private profit Of employers who are
using the powers conferred on them
10 prejudice the status after the war
OF the whole laboripg class. Feeling
against Lloyd George. minister of
munitions for bnNipp sshnt ~.
the ca2italists" is intense in the great
shipbuildng works on the clyde and
the Tyne. and the spectacle of pro
cessions Of workmen singing songs
consigning the kaiser and Lloyd
George to the samo warm climate is
not uncommon.
The government in enforc cling a
measurement Of industrial compul-
sion has. ] believe. oonc its best to be |
scrupulously fair. 1t takes all the |
surplus profits Of manufacturers en-
Gagged in war work as well as restrict |
Ing the personal freedom OF the work |
crs. IT has set up tribunals where |
workmen can complain If their en-
ployers take advantage unfairly of the |
new conditions But 1t is easy to un-
derstand how calling British work
men f'nd the slightest measure OF in
dustrial compulsion. The very fact !.
that man can't leave his Job often
iT enough to make him hate Il, and |
the old suspicion alta ching to prom
ises made by employers in this case
TO those of Lloyd George. Thousands
of workmen do not believe the gov
ornment will ever set the profits their
unprcct dented toll is creating Only
the spar OF patriotism, the constant
aploal not to let their comrades in
the trenches suffer for lack OF shells.
prevents serious outbreaks. With
such trouble rs has taken place tho
government has not deal. in q man.
ner altogether tactful. The suppress
sion of Socialist newspapers in Glas-
gov, and in particular the suspension
of paper which dared to print n
stenoGraphic report showing how
group of trade union delegates sue
cessfully hacked Lloyd George, has
caused much feeling. and the men dis
like intensely the inability to get their
grievances or demonstrations or even
strikes mentioned IN the press All
reports of labor trouble now come un-
der the ban of the censor.
Financial Distrust.
1t is not only the laboring class
that feels aggrievod. Distrust and
alarm in the financial aud business
world seems to be on the increase
Men ask how long this expenditure of
, o,ouV,UuV day can De continued
without national Insolvency and the
government is accused of wanton ex-
iravagance. The growing demand of
labor for "conscription of capitar' is
not calculated to scothe the feelingsl
Of the moneyod classes. who demand
II is greatly to the
credit of Britons that despite this
terrible financial strain there is little
criticism of money advances made to
he allies. although 1t is known from
the authority OF the prime minister
that the country Is paying more cash
to France, Russia. Italy and the
iominions than is yielded by the
whole revenue OF the United King
dom, including the unprecedented
new taxes. Whether England's allies
will be in position even to pay in
terest after the war on the 81 SOC, 600
4 day which John Bull is now grant
ng them appears to somc extremely
Criticism concerning the blockade
continues. 1t is known that some neu-
raj goods mostly coming from
America, filter through Scandinavian
Countries to Germany, and that fact
8 enough for the average man. who
II oncc demands that the govern
ncnt order the navy to stop such
raffic, and then when he finds that