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trace, and we know full well how thorough
~ those orders were carried out.
Mead Sailor Had
- lhirty-six Wounds

sometimes we got a trace of the story.
fefhaps you have heard of the SOPHIE and
the Homewood. These were cargo boats
which lett Cardiff on the same tide. Thew
had elghty-slx in their crews, all of them
our members, or members of the officers
ana engineers guilds. Right here, while T
am on 1t let me say that the men on the
prldge and on the lower deck, the men in
the engine rooms and the black SQUADS. are
as one IN this thing. When l speak of
seamen's boycott, I include them all To
get back, after five weeks, one of the Home
woods boats was sighted 1t was battered
by shell fire and riddled by machine gun
In the bottom of it was the hodv If ono
poor fellow. There were thirty-six bullets
in him.
1T may be true that dead men tell no
tales This one did. There were many such
cases this.
Again on one occasion when one of orr
boats was held up by torpedo a fellow on
the sub called out asking if Fred Kelly was
aboard. He was and said so.
What do you want of me?' he asked.
Nothing, said the fellow, only I was
shlpmate with you on that boat for three
years. I'm So-and-So. I'm now the pilot of
this boat
'Ihelr knowledge of our harbors and our
ships was being used against US.
About this time we decided on the bow
colt. Two years was the term we fixed. and
we gave solemn warning that for every ad
dltlonal outrage we would add n month
Seven years is the total now-the price we
demand shall be paid for the 1900 Of our
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A rthur
"A Henderson

Nothing in English politics Of the
period has been more interesting or reveal
ing than the changed position of Arthur
Henderson. He is a shrewd and capable
politician, but in no sense a great leader.
His speaking isS not remarkable. He has
none of the qualities which, for example,
give varied distinction to such men among
his own colleagues in the Labor party as
Ramsay Macdonald, Philip Snowden, Rob-
ert Smille of the Scottish miners, and J. H.
Thomas, of the railwaymep. Henderson is
strong and sound and thoroughly balanced.
In his controversy with Lloyd George last
year he gained Immensely through his
straint and good temper and his reluctance
in pressing an advantage in the Prime
Minister'S predicament. He is a member
and lay preacher of the Wesleyan Meth
odist Church, and, like many other men of
mark in the English labor world, gained his
first training in the mechanism of public
life through the experience provided by
the Non Conformist churches. He comes of
Northern English stock was a workman and
is a trade unionist and-unlike some of his
coadjutors-by birth and upbringing mem
Der of the artisan class. We do not think
an original leader Of his party. He belongs
to the good useful, capable average and to
the men of unblemished personal record.
His work during the last few years has re-
vealed him as the possessor Of unexpected
political talents, and by general consent he
deserves his place as leader of the majority
Labor party-the party which remained
throughout in steady support of the ma
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members we know the Germans murdered
In this number are not included many
many more that we long since posted as
dead and paid death benefits for to their
families
I'VE have got to do justice to the dead.
But we also have to DO justice by the living
and to those yet to live. We must and
Will protect these against traps we fell into.
we know now that the German sailor,
coming to English ports and sailing in Eng
llsh ships, often came as q subsidized man
and caused our wages to rule at three
pounds the month. They were willing to
work for that. We had to. We did not
know then, as we know now, that when they
came they were on a reserve list many OF
them, and in receipt of another three
pounds OF German money. Never again VIII
they work that trick on us. Never again
will they force our wages down.
Never again will we carry them as
stewards. We have the proofs now that IN
the old days when we innocently thought
the German as honest as ourselves tna'
never diplomat sailed on ships where they
were employed as stewards that his luggage
was not rified and his papers examined
Inc same thing happened to your meF
chants and ours. your commercial travellers
and those we sent abroad 1t won't be 50
IN the days to come
The sea is hard life, yet those who
follow it love it. 1t is clean life and .
free life. 1t is life for men and not t0T
dogs, and SO far as lays in the British sea-
mems power, it will not be polluted BY
Germans.
~The boycott is not Of our choosinSl
Would to God we never had to considerj
much less apply it. But it was forced on u
when, against our wills, we were forced y
realize that, come what may, so what mssl
a Hun is only Hun
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wounded German, far from recognizing the
feeling of pity Of which he is the object
from the Frenchman, has seized the oppor-
tunity to shoot him. 1 do not believe there
is single instance in which Frenchman
has acted so toward German giving him
help. There is here a tremendous differ
ence of character between two people who
are, nevertheless, neighbors geographically
The incident 1 have described has oc-
Cured so many times that it proves the
ferocious character of the Germans and the
danger of being generous to them 1t fol-
lows that when one understands the Ger
man psychology cannot reasonably
argue that to be generous to the Germans
is one of the ways to prevent a renewal of
the war. Those, unfortunately too few,
who really know the Germans we'll, are
persuaded that the only way to obtain this
result is to make it impossible for them to
renew the war by taking from them the
means to begin again their aggressions.
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Mo Great
i y Conservative

A singular feature of the war period
has been that England has had no outstand-
ing conservative leader. The Boer war
twenty years ago found the Tories depend
ent upon the radical Joseph Chamberlain,
as the great war found them dependent
upon the radical Lloyd George. Yet has It
not generally been asserted that war brings
out the powerful reactionary? Before 1914
Mr. Balfour, past seventy, had retired
from the leadership of his party. Bonar
Law, whose political character has come
we'll out of the test of war time, has
standing as leader Of the multitude. 1t
is no disparagement of him to say that
he possesses none of the gifts of Glad
stone, Chamberlain, Lloyd George. The
one politician of the old Conservative fam
lilies who has done conspicuously we'll in
the four years is Lord Robert Cecil, and
he has just left the government because
he will not accept as a legislative fact,
the separation from the state Of the Church
of England in Wales. A Cecil would as
readily vote for church disestablishment
as would a Curzon or q Lansdowne for
coniscation of the land. Lord Curzon is
an eminent representative of the old con-
servatism, as Lord Miner is of the new.
But neither could conceivably fill position
of leadership in the England now arising;
in the Lloyd George government, and both,
being trained administrators of the Oxford
bureaucratic school, have done a great deal
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but of every man in England who believed
in fair play.
"That was the way things lasted until
the day the Lusitania was sunk. We had
planned a big concert for that night for
the entertainment of the Germans, and
Wilson and I were down to see that every
thing was in order, and plenty of refresh
ments on hand, when the news came A
concert then was out of the question, and
calling the Germans together, we announced
Its postponement.
We've just got word Mr.. Wilson said.
that the Lusitania has been sunk and five
hundred of our brothers, murdered have
gone down with her. We can have no CON-
cert now
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THE Old
Il Man

The American public in general is in
clined uhduly to- minimize the influence
of Mr.. AsQuith. Until the fall of the first
coalition government his position was
strong, and in Scotland and the north of
England he still commands a great fol-
lowing His faculty of weighty public
speech will always stand him in good stead
He is powerful in attack. But he is ap-
preaching his SEVENTEEN year, and his
mind has ceased to move. In the House of
Commons he remains great figure. No
alternative leader of the Liberal party has
so far appeared. A large number of peo-
pie would heartily approve of his going to
the Peace Conference. 1t is by no means
impossible that he may be Prime Minister
again. And yet it cannot be denied that
in the epoch now opening a statesman of
Mr. Asquiths character and mental habit
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. enerosity to Germans
~ Would Penalize Victims

Moreover, will the spirit of justice per-
nit the Allies to be practically generous to
the Germans? The response to this ques-
ton is easy, if one remembers the ind1s-
putable fact that the Germans have stolen
so much and done such immense material
damage to the Allies, the Belgians and the
French especially, that everything the
Germans own should be taken, in strict JUS
tice, as the gauge of reparation to their vic
tins. One can be certain that even this
would not be enough, for the damage
wrought by the Germans is so great that
one cannot be sure in advance that it can
ever be repaired
1t results from the foregoing that all
generosity-that is to say, all property
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We were particularly anxious about the
men they took off our trawlers in Hamburg.
not after the war was declared in AUGUST
but IN July. We believed that word would
get back to Germany of the treatment ac-
corded German sailors, and we foolish1v
thought this would mean something 70 orr
men.
Ut did not. We soon learned that our
men were being treated worse than anv
white man would treat dog all this time
the Germans in our midst were living like
iords. Not only were they thrown into dun
geons, but they were fogged--many of them
men We'll past their prime-paraded through
the streets for the women to spit on and
hooHgans assault They were fed on
worse than refuse one throws to the hogs
the full story of their treatment can
never be told in a newspaper
"All this we learned when, after we had
got rid of these pests, some of the older of
our men were returned
But even then we were not bitter. We
had no thought of boycotts, no idea but
that in the happy days to come when the
war would be over we would not again
sail with Germans in our crews. This was
because we did not even then realize the
depth of depravity possible in human minds.
We began to plumb it when reports Of
u-boat outrages began to come in. All the
world knows how the crew of the Belgian
Prince were lined up on the deck Of
u-boat and left to drown when she sinh.
merged. 1t does not know all the horrible
stories of men shelled in open boats, of
men and women and children, too, for that
matter, cast adrift without food, or oars or
water. 1t does not know of the thousands
OF our men leaving port who were never
heard Of
we ourselves do not know Or all. We
know of the orders sink and leave no
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that these protected him from the authori-
ties and the patriotic people of England
UNTIL in the words of Upper, 1--WE realized
that Hun is only a Hun
"When the war broke out" says Topper
jim much the same soft tone Judge Newton
Morris, of Marietta, Ca, tells how he saved
the body Of Leo Frank from the mob that
would burn it, or as Bat Masterson used in
the days when, as the boy marshal of Dodge
City, Kan, his gun barrel had as many
notches rip saw, "when the war broke
out and the. authorities took 5000 German
sailors off British ships in British ports
we insisted that they should not be treated
as prisoners or as enemies.
"These men had been our shipmates.
They were members Of our union, many of
them Of five, ten, fifteen years. standing.
We had had no trouble with them They
were, thought, our brothers. And be-
cause we thought them brothers, those
German shipmates of ours, we went to the
authorities and insisted that they should
not be locked up in Jail or confined in in
ternment camps.
"'These Aen,' said we, ARE our fellows.
They are not responsible for the war Thew
did not bring it or. They have nothing
to do with it. 1t would be crime to treat
them as though they we're. Take them off
the ships, ay but turn them over to us
that we may care for them
"Wel the authorities turned them over
to us, though I must say, as l see things
now, to their credit, with i'll grace. We
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\ fired the
L a Great

But what, before | end this rough cata.
logue, is to be said of Lloyd Georges
mysterious ally, now engaged in stabbng
the statesman he has upheld and encour-
aged since the first months Of the war,
Mr.. Georges strength lay with the British
people, and he should have known it. There
was nothing for him in any kind of sup.
port. He could not fulfil high DESTINY
by playing with Alfred Harmsworth, Lord
Northcllffe, any more than by accepting
the aid of that strangest of Labor cham
pions, Havelock Wilson, of the Seamen's
and Flremen's Union, Or of that indefinitely
more marvellous phenomenon, Horatio Bot
tomley, the editor of John Bull" Why
should Lord Northcliffe, having impelled
the Prime Minister to declare for gen.
eral election, now be deriding and threat
ening him? The answer is not difficult to
indicate. Lord Northcliffe knows as we'll
as any man in England what the common
man is likely to be saying tomorrow. He
resents the influence of certain politicians
upon Mr.. George. He knows that Mr.
George cannot get away with any pro
gramme of settlement and reconstruction
so long as he is associated with certain
type of reactionaries. He would doubtless
argue that the best, and the only way Of
helping Mr.. George to a fresh lease of
power is by publicly driving him to a
breach with the most powerful of his pres
ent colleagues. He is certainly aware that
the soldiers vote will not be orthodox Tory
or Liberal. Alfred Harmsworth knows why
Horatio Bottomley's paper is the most
popular of organs with the private soldier
who comes nearest to the accepted type
Of Tommy Atkins. He realizes that this
powerful member of the new constituency
Will demand political and social changes
OF a sort not in the least like what Lord
Curzon and Mr.. Bonar Law will want to
put over. Hence the eleventh hour assault
of the popular Northcliffe papers, with the
London Times" looking on in carefully
framed detachment The next move is
plainly indicated Should the Lloyd George
majority in the new Parliament correspond
with Lord Northcliffe's expectations, he
would be furnished with ample evidence in
favor of his contention that the new blood
he is demanding for the government must
be of the real right tinge
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situation? Certainly Winston Churchill is
exception, and an exceptional individual.
Ten years ago he was direct competitor
with Lloyd George for the leadership of
the Liberal forces and the nation. He has
power and energy and more than strain
of genius. He is a great speaker-not, like
Mr. George, a brilliant extemporizer; but
thorough, massive, convincing There is
English orator of his time whose
speeches make more excellent reading, and
in delivery they are tremendous. And Win
ston Churchill is very remarkable cam
paigner. Not Lloyd George himself is a
greater asset to his party during an cleo
ton, as Churchll's achievement during the
Liberal triumph of 1906 abundantly proved.
To-day, however, he is not counted among
the national leaders. In the George gov
eminent he is Minister of Munitions. AS
such he carries the unpopular burden of a
department which comes into conflict with
the immense and varied army of muniton
workers. And-a point of far higher seri-
CHARACTERIZATION Churchill, rightly or
wrongly, has been made to bear the major
part of the blame attaching to the terrible
adventure Of Gallipoli in 1916 He has
bitter and unrelenting enemies, chiefly in
the party which he deserted during the
free trade fight fifteen years ago. But
neither they nor his own failures avaled
to keep his election speeches this week
out of the cables.
There remain the Labor leaders, At the
beginning of the war Arthur Henderson
was the official chairman of the Labor party
and therefore its spokesman. When Mr..
Asquith, in 1915, formed the first Coalition
Cabinet Henderson went in as Minister of
Education. In December, 1916, he was the
representative of Labor in the new small
War Cabinet (only five or six members
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went surety for them and their good be-
havor and made them our guests, the
guests of our union. In England we main
tain several homes. The largest Of these is
IN Northamptonshire. There we took 1000
of these fellows, housed them, clothed them,
fed them better than they were ever clothed
or fed or housed before in their lives. The
best in the land was theirs-there was full
and plenty in England, then, you know, and
our treasury was fat
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"A NATIONAL election wl'nouc 'he
~ clash of two contendng leaders is
4 ~ an almost unheard-of thing The
public temper and habit demand
the contrast. Without it battle at the
polls inevitably lacks reality Given
Douglas for Lincoln, Disraeli for Glad
stone Lloyd George for Chamberlain, and
the populace is happy in the fight. But If
there's no duel of champions to typify the
grapple of forces, how shall the voter, man
or women, put any punch into the ballot
paper? He cannot. No matter how mo-
mentous the issues, unless they embod-
led in human shape the ordinary citizen
feels that he is somehow being cheated of
his inalienable right to the pursuit Of hap
piness--the game of political football, as
Lloyd George calls it., being we know,
an expression of the greatest happiness of
the greatest number.
In England to-day there is no duel of
was Lloyd George election. 1t would
seem to have little no meaning apart
from the position, and future, of the pres
ent Prime Minister. And Mr.. George has no
single antagonist. Mr.. Asquith was not fight
ing him. On the contrary, he has declared
that coalition candidate who is a good
Liberal need fear the attack of the Liberal
machine. Arthur Henderson, even, was
not directly fighting Lloyd George. He
appeared to take for granted that the
Prime Minister would be confirmed in
power; and he announced that the Labor
party was prepared to support the coali-
tion government within wide limits. And,
although Lloyd George is not the Conserva-
tive leader, and the extreme Tories
have neither love for him nor trust
in him, the official head of the Conserva-
tive party, Bonar Law is Lloyd Georges
closest ally. He signs election mani
festoes Jointly with the Prime Min
lister. By an oddly of circumstances,
the irony of which will not be lost upon
the American public, the one prominent
public character who stood as an Oppose
tion champion during the election cam
paign is Lord Northciffe-the man to
whom, it is commonly said, Lloyd George
owes his accession to the first place in the
British nation two years ago. The discus
sion of this interesting phenomenon one
may defer to later paragraph
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By John J. Leary, Jr.

~ THIS side of the Atlantic it is
q b difficult to understand the bitter
~ ness with which the seamen's
unions of Great Britain insist
that British ships shall carry nothing of
German make German origin for seven
years in penalty for the sins of the u
boats.
We know the Englishman to be hard.
two-tsted fighter, a bit slow at times in
getting started, but good finisher. We
know him also to be consistent almost
said obstinate-in his ways.
But we also know that, like most hard
fighters, the end of the fighting finds him
good winner or better loser; that the end
Of the fight usually squares the account for
him; that win, lose or draw, he is inclined
to shake hands with his adversary and like
as not become his good friend, his GUS
toner, his pal. Hate is not speciality of
his. It is not his habit to long "strafe"
anybody or anything. In fact, he rather
prides himself on leaving hate to others.
The difficulty disappears, however, when
one listens to the story Captain Edward
Topper, general organizer of the Sailors
and Firemen's Union of Great Britain, has
come to America to tell Listening to him.
one realizes that the movement and the
feeling inspiring 1t are of slow growth, that
time the German sailor. was the protege of
the men with whom he had been shipmates,
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he English Election a Battle Without Blo0dshed

created by Lloyd George. In the following
spring he went to Petrograd as special en-
WOW from Britain to the new revolutionary
government of Russia. Returning in Au
gust, 1917, to England, he fell out with his
colleagues over the projected international
Labor Conference at Stockholm, and, after
sharp controversy with Lloyd George, left
the Cabinet. Freed from official bonds he
took a prominent part in the reorganization
Of the Labor party and the preparation of
it's war and peace aims, and to-day is leading
the party which put some 200 or 300 candi-
dates in the field against Conservative and
Liberal supporters of the Coalition.
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M acDonald
1v1 and Others

Henderson, Of course, is by no means ~.
full representative Of British labor. p,,.
say Macdonald is a far stronger ana :.
they say, more magnetic personality. mr.
ing the war he has shared with Phil,
Snowden the odium of unpopular v;avvs
but at no time, even when his onin;ors
were fercely resented, has ne failed -
secure tribute of admiration for his Gin.
cerity and force Snowden and he togetbe,
make a formidable platform combination
Both are great speakers. Robert SmilEs
Yields a power over the northern miner,
rarely equalled by any Labor leader Of
the generation. J. H. Thomas, general Sec
rotary of the Railway Mems Union. r..
Gently performed great job in the endins
of the railway strike; but the result. an
parently, is to cost him his place in the
union.
G. N. Barnes, the Glasgow engineer, Hen.
derson's successor in the War Cabinet. has
not achieved eminence in that position.
One of two Of his colleagues among tina
Labor ministers have done extremely well
but none of them can touch the remark.
tive of Lancashire cotton, who goes before
his constituents wearing wonderful halo
With the exception of Mr.. Hoover, he is
the one food controller in the world who.
seemingly, is ready to stand up to anv
test, cinfident of triumphant issue
And he is to De the representative of Brit.
ish Labor at the Peace Conference.