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| 1 THEATRE MYtL & EMPIRE PALACE, Me?r j I TI!ctM.AWIIi ihIRcel!s!!yr I • General Manager—Mr. Val SteveM. IT QO ONCE NIGHTLY. t T ?-??? ? MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, for Six Ni?hK. 7.30 I | MATINEE THURSDAY 2-30. ? In con j unction with ALFRED BUTT and OWEN NARES, I 1 EUGEN; c;R;¿;E;;W ARD 1 • Present, by arrangement with FREDERICK HARKTSON 2 ) The HOUSE of PERIL X A Four Act Play, by HORACE AN\ES?Y VArnELL. « I From the Novel, ".HE c:! I K ? THE ARMOIK," by Mrs. BELLOC LOWDES. I FROM THE QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONDON. I 1- Supported by A FLLL WEST-END CASTE, including0. W. SO?ERSEI j j? NEXT WEEK "PYGMALION." ? j i It It." I' It  j Merthyr Electric Theatre j I Mermenêl5a!.m!atre I £ CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE FROM 2.30 P.M. DAILY. | j Monday Tuesday and Wednesday- I t The Ideal Film Renting Company present N? I j A SEARCH FOR A REAL MAN ) j A Most Attractive Story, featuring MISS FLORENCE REED. I  Ella Wheeler WHcox's Poem—"LAO WHEN YOUNG." I J I She snared the world in nets of subtle wiles: 2 I The proud, the famed, all clamoured at her gate." I ? THE BRASS BULLET- Episode !5 I 1 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday- I I The Stoll Film Company present I 1 FRIEND HUSBAND I An Excellent Production which appeals to all. I I "THE CIRCUS KING." Episode 9. A Most Exciting Episode I REEL LIFE SERIES. No. 10. I Coming!—The Temple of DusK—Greatest Film of the Year 1- ) Prices of Admission 5d., 9d., 1/3 including Tax. I m Lit II It II .i nr% Are unrivalled for all Irregulariti., etc., they BLANCHARD' .S speedily a?ord relief and never fail to %Uevi&t? all suffering. They supersede Pennyroyal, Pill ????,? Dtt t ?? WM Chia, Bitter, Apple, &c. Blanchard's are the "??? best ef all Pills fer Women. Sold In boxes. MWi, by BOOTS' Branches and all Chemists, or post free, same price, from: LESLIE MARTIN, Ltd., Chemists, 34 Dalston Lane, London. Samples and valuable booklet sent free, Id. stamp. Bedwellty Union CONTRACTS FOR SUPPLIES. ¡ TENDERS are invited for the supply of the JL fonow?ng articles for the Workhouse and Children's Homes at Tredegar and BIackwood. For three months from the 1st October, 1919: Beef, Mutton, Flour, and Meals, Groceries, Jam, Tobacco, Snuff, House and Engine Coal, also Beef and Mutton for out-door poor upon the order of the Relieving Officer of the No. 3 (Tre- degar) District. Boots and Shoes, Leather and Grindery, Clothing and Drapery, Haberdashery, Hosiery, Ironmongery and Cutlery, Oils and Brushes, Milk, Male Officers Uniforms, Wines and Spirits, Conduct of Funerals of poor persons dying at the Workhouse and in each Parish in the Union, and Sweeping Chimneys at the Children's Homes. Drugs And Surgical Dressings, and Materials, etc., for Uniforms for Nurses and other Offioers. Tenders must include free delivery of the several articles at the Workhouse, Cottage Homes or Scattered Homes. Forms of Tenders may be obtained at my office at the Workhouse, Tredegar, where sealed and endorsed Tenders must be delivered on or before 10 a.m., Wednesday, September 24, 1919. No Tender will be entertained except on the prescribed form. Samples of go<xls may be seen at the YVork-i house and Cottage Homes, Tredegar. The Guardians do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest or any tender, and they re- serve to themselves the power of accepting any part of the Tender. NOTICE TO PRESENT CONTRACTORS. The current quarter closes on the 30tli inst., and all accounts then outstanding must be de- livered by the 7th proximo, if prompt payment is desired. BY Order of the Board, H. J. C. SHEPARD, Clerk to the Guardians. Union Offices, Tredegar, 10th September, 1919. I.L.P. MEETINGS. THOMASTOWN PARK. SUNDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 14th, AT 2-45 P.M. PROMPT. SPEAKERS: Ex-Private SIMMONDS, Birmingham. Mr. HECTOR HUGHES, Dublin. If wet the Meeting will be held in Bentley's Hall HOPE CHAPEL, MERTHYR. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 1919. Rev. J. Morgan Jones, M.A. SPIRITUALISM. TEMPLE, TRAMROADSIDE ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th- MR. SPENCER (of Clasgow), the noted Lecturer, Clairvoyant and Elocution- ist, will officiate. Services at 11 and 6. Also on Monday at 7.30. ON WEDNESDAY (Sept. 17th) at 7.30— MR. SPENCER will give a Recital of Selections from the great Poets and Authors. ON SUNDATlSept. 31st)— MISS MILLS (of Torquay) will occupy the platform. Clairvoyance at each service. Silver collections.
Electric Theatre.
Electric Theatre. The Merthyr Electric Theatre people are pro- viding an attractive programme from Monday to Wednesday of next week with the premier bill position alloca-ted to the latest and best of the Ideal Company's releases, A Search for a Real Man." In the lead plays Florence Reed, a shadow-stage actress of much charm. There is plenty of quick-action thrills, for those with a penchant for sensationalism, in the current instalment of that absorbing serial of ad venture and mystery, 'The Brass Bullet." The comedy element is not lacking, and a fine selection of subsidiary features bears the labels of the big- gest of the film producers in business, including another of the delightful picturised versions of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems. For Thursday onwards' star feature the Stoll Film Company are responsible. Of late the Electric Theatre management have drawn ex- tensively upon this source for their big-reelers, and comfortable box-office returns speak of the wisdom of their choice. The latest Stoll booking is The Friend Husband," a domestic drama with a suggestion of the problem-play about it. It is finely cast, and luxuriously mounted and photographed. Eddie Polo does more of his acrobatic; stunts in the new episode of the Circus King" serial, and like the first half of the week the show is finished off with an assort- ment of good short-length dramas, comedies and topical items. Amongst early bookings of note is the epoch- making film that the whole trade are angling for, "The Temple of Dusk." Its arrival in Merthyr will bring all eyes focussed on the Elec- tric Theatre screen.
Family Notices
DEATH. I HARRIS.—At 6, King Edward Villas, Merthyr Tydfil, on September 10th, William Harris, of Abermorlais Boys' School, and Executive N.U.T., in his foi-ty-eighth year. Funeral strictly private.
IEvents of the Week. I
I Events of the Week. I THE two topics of the week from the top of Society, to its solid base in the common people of the land have been the closely correlated ex- posure of the true innerness of the Russian gamble by Col. Sherwood-Kelly, V.C., and the triumph of Smillie and the censuring of the Par- liamentary Committee of the_Trades Union Con- gress in the direct action" debate. Yet in neither case lias anything been added to the sum total 'of our knowledge, additional prestige given to the Labour cause, or the question of future tactics definitely adumbrated. Had Trades Congress cheered Havelock AVilson and jibbed at Bob Smillie, instead of the reverse, we should all have known that the Trades Union Congress was imitating the conventions of the American Federation of Labour in endorsing 'I actions and attuu?es and disregarding the voice of the toilers from whom fliose leaders draw their strength. That the barometer of the Trades Congress registered approximately level with the tone of the rank and file of the trades union movement, argued a nearer at-one-ness than has been apparent during the last few years. That is all. As for the revelations of Col. Sherwood-Kelly, for which we are as grate- ful as anyone, they but display what everyone with a modicum of sense has always known, that there are honest men in every walk of life, who on awakening to a consciousness of the pei-fidv of members of their own class, are not con- strained by class-bonds, or personal conse- quences, from propagating the cause of right. But we knew before the gallant colonel entered the field what was happening in Russia we knew the calibre of Mr. Winston Churchill, the Napo- leon of liars, and of his spineless tasks, and crafty colleagues in Westminster. We knew all .that. What the colonel has done is to dot the i's and croSs the t's of our indictment, and tha.t WIll not help much in discussing the question of tactics to be adopted to put a stop to the ma- chinations of the Churchillian-Law-George clique. The question still remains how are we going to get shut of the Government, for a. government that for nine months litus been engaged in no more edifying a task than eating its own pro- mises and scrapping its own pledges is hardly likely to be disturbed by the revelation that it is still further besmirching itself with the foul mud of inconstancy to it own platform utter- ances. And just there it is that the antagonists of I direct action run off the rocker by talk of constitutional procedure. Constitution making has ever been a question of the force available for immediate practical use, if the will of the would-be constitutional framers did not-prevail. What force have we to alter the constitution, or compel the observation of our present constitu- tion by these scrappers of constitutions who to- day make holiday from their Parliamentary du- ties? The will of the people aroused by popu- lar propaganda? But to denounce the acts of the Government from the public platform in lan- guage adequate to the denunciation is to stamp Parliament's doings as illegal, immoral and suicidal in the blackest terms and the most stirring phrases possible to a Maodonald or a Wallhead. And when the people, moved to their depths by the awakening that such words mean, deft-ermine to move the Government, are they then to be told that the situation is not serious enough to necessitate the use of their economic power ? The position is idiotic, the bold course is the only course that pinch-back Napoleons ap- preciate, and curbed their wills to, and the bold course it will ultimately have to be. The truth is that a strange fear that "direct" action means something more than a co-ordination of industrial and political weapons obsesses the minds of the majority of our leaders. They fear that the introduction of the Soviet system, ad- mirable as it has proved for Russia in her tran- sition, somehow is applied to Britain by the em- ployment of the passive-resistance of the strike. Whether Soviet Government would be beneficial or hurtful as an alternative to the present Bri- tish constitution is an academic question that has never been seriously tackled as yet. But even had a negative decision come out of such a. consideration, the steps by which a political general strike to oust an unconstitutional gov- ernment have never been uncovered. The truth runs to be that the Parliamentary mind becomes so habituated to meeting situations by mouth- fuls of sophisticated half-truths, that the mind ultimately adopts itself to the process, and makes of it a normal course. The times have gone by for that sort of thing. The whole-truth and nothing but the truth will serve the cause of Democracy in the trying times of to-day, and the still more trying situations of to-morrow, and instead of mere talk that but serves to cover the lurking fear, the fear itself must be expressed courageously, debated and be dissipated either from the minds of those who feared, or over the entire community that they may learn the dan- ger, and evolve practical steps to avoid it. But so far the question of Soviet or Government ac- cording to geographical partitioning has not arisen. The sole purpose of the direct action that was threatened, and that was defeated by the Trades Union Parliamentary Committee in the main-to the eternal discredit of that Com- mittee, and to the death of hundreds of splendid meii--Britisl-t and Russian-was secure that an unconstitutional government should revive the constitution of the land. Far from being an unconstitutional demand, it was rather the ac- tion of constitutionalists deeply convinced that the constitution was being violated, and that only the prompt application of the only remain- ing weapon in the hands of the democracy could check the wreckers from piling the whole ..heri- tage of constitutionalism on the rocks of dis- aster. The wreckers are still at work, the breakers are eddying in swirling form over those rocks—how are we to avoid catastrophe? So far only the Triple Alliance has offered a course that steers to safety—the "direct" action of the economic weapon.
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Hearts of Oak Benefit Society A MEETING of the Hearts of Oak Members and their friends will be held at the BENTLEY'S HALL, MERTHYR, on WED- NESDAY NEXT, SEPT. 17th, 1919. The Chair will be taken by Mr. E. R. WIL- LIAMS (Delegate for the District) and addresses will be given by Members of the Executive Council. Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, Euston Road, London.
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Waiting for the 11 Pubs 11 to Open. I LABOUR CUARDIAN ALLECES RELIEF I MONEY IS SPENT ON DRINK. MERTHYR'S POOR-RATE COES UP. I Tlx1 huge increase in the amount of out-relief paid in consequence of .industrial depression led to a. prolonged discussion at Saturday's meeting of the Merthyr Board of Guardians. Mr. Harry Kvans (Penydarren) asked how much of the advance in relief was due to the steelw orkers' strike, but this the clerk (Jfr. F. T. James) was unable to answer. Mr. Evans volunteered the information that hundreds in Penydarren and Dowlais were on the poor-law Mr. James was surprised to hear it having re- gard to the high-wages" the workmen recei ved. Mr. Evans promptly retorted that it was impos- sible for any worker with a family to save during the war. High wages were the exception and not the general rule. Moreover, there was the heavy reduction in the exchange-value of money to be reckoned with. oi- (-ollllt v It was reported that until the caiis for county purposes had cnmc in from the respective county councils half-yearly estimates could not be com- pleted. Apart from the contingency fund t74,787 would be required, and to this sum it would be necessary to add the county calls. Mr. John Prowle observed the sum of t74,787 represented an increase1 of £ 20,000 and upon the advice of the clerk the contingency fund was fixed at £ 15,000. POVERTY IN DOWLAIS. I In the resultant discussion, Mr. John Adkins (Merthyr) resented a suggestion that the guar- dians were throwing relief at people." Thai, some of the Dowlais workmen merely with small families had been compelled to obtain poor-law succour was due to the generally low w ages paid. A married man of his acquaintance had earned only £ 2 at the Cyfarthfa Steelworks. It was a fact, he added, that the board were subsidising sweaters, which was one reason of inflated rates. On this latter point, Mr. Bert Brobyn (Merthyr) instanced a case of a Dowlais girl of nineteen, who worked in a drapery establishment for no wages. Increased rates were common to the whole country, and were inevitable with the re- shuffling of values. ii N. here," he remarked, shouted very lustily for the war to go on and they to piy foi- It." A member: Clamoured for war? Mr. ?rohyn: Yes. many on this board clam- -Nll-. III.oi)vll: Y("" )11,11iv oil ill)s .I)oill.(] t-Iiiii- .Mrs. fol. it to -("I) oil. Mr. Ili-obvii I can name plenty of them if you want the names'. Mr. Meth Da vies (Aberdare) drew an analogy between "the handsome advances in salary re- ceived by Cabinet ministers and the Government treatment- of Old-Age pensioners. Though there might he public grumbling at the new- rate the boiTrcl had the satisfaction of knowing they were dointr their best for the aged. Mr. D..Jeremy Morgan (Dowlais) said the guardians have been called upon to give relief to discharged soldiers and their dependents and of many soIdJerswix) had rejoined the colours, delays having occurred in getting through the Army allowances. In a somewhat verbose appeal for retrench- ment Mr. Sam Morgan (Treliarris) gave voice to startling allegations of TVeharris out-relief reci- pients squandering parish money in public- houses. First he sought to show that to-day rates hit the working-class directly and that nowadays an increase in rates would find its I immediate reflection in higher house-rent. Rent was a factor in the cost of living and it was, thus, the duty of the board to keep down that cost by due regard to the rates. If the guar- dians did not do their little bit in that respect they could not expect the Government to effect reductions. There is a lot in what Mr. Bol- well says," added Mr. Morgan. He suggested that we have been more or less a little indis- criminate so far as relief is concerned. I object to see money being paid out in relict and that money carried immediately to .Johli Barleycorn. So far as my observations go I may say there was more parish money ta ken to the public- houses in my district in the last six months than ever I have know n." Money could, not be al- lowed to be squandered in that direction, and it must be stopped, for in giving relief indiscrimin- atdv they would be creating paupers. Children weie neglected and the fema le element—lie re- garded the situation as '.t moral hackwash of the war—was the main offenders." HARRY EVANS' INDICTMENT OF CAPITALISM. Mr. Harry Evans: Whilst there must be some money spent in this way in my area at any rate not much is being so spent. I believe there is less money spent on drink in Penydarren and Dowlais in the last three years than ever—es- pecially among the poor people. The very price of k. is too prohibitive. Mr. Morgan: I only referred to the specific district under my observation. Mr. Evans: The whole union is not tarred with I the same brush. The root of the difficulty of the financial position was the Capitalist System. Here were huge industrial concerns with thou- sands of people in Dowlais out of work and de- pendent upon poor-law aid. Yet the industry would pay big dividends. There were millions in hand as a reserve fund, and that money ought to go into the rates. The assessments of these industrial undertakings should he higher though he recognised that to fight the employing classes in the courts might bring failure. Heie was the anomaly: hundreds of workers starving and, on the other hand, people with more wealth than they could use—people who had never been neai Dowlais. The poverty of Dowlais was duo to the fact that we lived in an industrial area. Millions were made out of it and taken away, the people left nothing but the slag tips. ro get at the source of the evil was necessary the nationalisa- tion of the mines, steelworks and every other of the big industries. Mr. -Isaac Jones (Treliarris) took up JVIr. Mor- gan. He saw no harm in a glass of beer. He occasionally had one hiinself. (Laughter.) And in 20 years he had never seen anyone spend par- ish money in a public house. Mr. Evan Davies (Pontlottyn) I move Mr. Morgan you get Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson down to your place. (Laughter.)
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war to end war," "A war to destroy Militar- ism "A war to establish Peace on Earth and goodwill towards all men," To make the world safe for Democracy." But, alas, what have we. Our last dpction was a pure capitalists' cam- paign for political control. Capitalism is more firmly in the saddle to-day than ever. this octopus to-day is such that they can starve any country they please. Boys, shall our lads have fought in vainfbiiall it be said of us that we allowed our sons, our brothers, our fathers to die, in vain? Shall we not rather put.on the whole armour of Labour, get our minds established in the principles of Righteousness, and our feet shod with the Gospel of Peace, determined at any oost that our boys shall not have died in vain.
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Failure of the Coalition. t BY JAS. WINSTONE. < The Coalition Government with its overwhelm" ing majority, obtained by a distortion of facto and a tissue of falsehoods, has been in power for just nine months, and has taken two months holiday in order to impress the manna] workers with the need of an immediate increase in the production of coal and other commodities to save the nation, from bankruptcy. No party of modern times, has been so extra- vagantly wasteful of the tax-payers' money. No Government in recent history so strong in num- bers in the House, has been so weak in the country. Thoughtful men and women are now realising that unless some immediate and radical change takes place the country is heading to financial ruin. To pay the interest on the war debt of eight thousand million pounds sterling we shall re- quire to find four hundred, million pounds ster- ling. With 1 per cent, sinking fund it will take eighty million pounds sterling. So we have a war debt of {, (jOO,OOO,(Jon: interest at 5 per cent., £ 400,000,000; Sinking Fund at 1 per cent., {¡,\O,OO(),OO(); total annual charge, we have Winston Churchill's Conscription Act, £ 600,000,000; expedition into R s, ii tloo,(X)(),Of)o debt accumulating at the rate of £ 2,000,000 daily, £ 730.'000.000, to gratify the whims of the adventurer. To pay the interest on the war debt and pro- vide for the sinking fund it will mean a charge of t9 per head per annum of the population, or £-1.) per annum for every family of live persons. When the war began the National Debt was equivalent to £ 10 a head for every man. woman and child in'Great Britain. It is now £ 19o a head and is continually rising. The Government has made no adequate provision for paying our way. This' country has not been in such a serious position during the last hundred years. With an inflated currency and excessive prices for everything necessary to the home life of the people, unemployment becomes a danger to the State. The Coalition permits excessive profits in fa- voured trades; shields the big-man profiteer; hai rasses the small business men and thus the Coalition goes merrily on, presumably until the crash comes. WHAT OF RUSSIA? HOW IS BRITAIN I AFFECTED? On the lotit of April last, the Prime Minister, speaking on the Russian position in the House of Commons, sa,id:- First of all there is the fundamental prin- ciple of all foreign policy in this country—a very sound principle—that you should never interfere in the internal affairs of another country, however badlv governed, and whether Russia is Menshevik (Minority) or Bolshevik (Majority), whether it is reactionary or revo- lutionary, whether it follows one set of men or another, t'hat is a matter for the Russian t)i- tnt)t l ict- tiiit people themselves. We cannot interfere ac- cording to any canon of good government to impose any form of Government on another I people, however had we may consider their present form of Government to he. The people of this country thoroughly disapproves of Tzarism, its principles, its corruptions, and its oppressions, but it was not our business to put it down." in Why have we spent nearly £ 100,000,000 since the armis- tice in violating the funda menta I principle of all foreign policy—a very sound principle—that you should never interfere in the internal affairs of another country, however hadly governed." I The Government rejected the peace offer of the Soviet Government- of Russia, viz. (1) An undertaking not to molest the withdrawal of our troops. (2) To declare an amnesty towards all those who have helped us, and they invite us to have diplomatic missions to see that the amnesty is respected. (3) They have promised to repay the external 1 debt of Ittislit, offering 1:1,000,000 worth of platinum at once, and valuable forests and mine-, as security for the remainder. (4) Tltey undertake to recognise the de facto government on their borders and not to interfere with them. All of w hich has been refused by the Government of Cajntalists. And Russia, which would, with its teeming millions of people, soon become Bri- tains best customer in the markets of the world, is denied the clean peace of which we have heard so much The criminal .folly of our Coalition capitalisti.c policy does not end in turning our recent ally ) into an enemy, but it; prevents Britain entering one of the most necessary and best markets in the world. Not only are we losing the trade we so much need, to prevent our industries closing down, and our people becoming unemployed, but -we are destroying the markets by killing the people aiid preventing a troubled and turbulent world to settle down to peaceful industry. We have in Russia 180,000,000 awakening human beings, whose goodwill we should foster, whose trade we should reeiprwate, for let there be no misunderstanding, there is a growing feel- ing in all countries l against our interference in Russia. WHY? WHY? WHY? 1 '11"- .1 1 W hy are we spending more tnan one nuiiaon pounds a day in Russia ? 1 wonder whether some of the people will ever realise what it means to Britain? Food, clothing, boots, household neces- saries are all soaring in price, and I shudder to contemplate the coming winter. But because the Coalition Government is in the maws of the greedy, soulless capitalists, we are sending in great quantities the very things we need at home to clothe and feed our people, to Russia, not only to clothe our own troops, but to clothe any scratch army that comes along, and we receive nothing in return. Our military scheme is doomed to failure. We are feeding the whole population of Archangel, and they will neither work for us nor fight for us. The American troops have been withdrawn. I and our boys should be brought home. Under any sane policy, Russia could be one of our greatest exchanging media. There are vast stores of goods in Russia, such as corn, leather, hemp, flax, timber, platinum, all wait- ing for British coa l, rails, engines and other manufactured goods on which our men could be employed and help to reconstruct the new world. ( The Government policy is solely to blame, and the British people are paying in high prices on everything they want. great My people, capitalists are playing a great game. The deep-rooted cause of the world's un- rest, turmoil, and the semi-starvation of the, peoples is Trusts." The trust because liter- ally they hold the goods, the means whereby the [ people live, and only sell when. they can reap a big profit. The war has been fought, and our young men have laid down their lives for the noblest, purest and most righteous ideals in the universe: "A (Continued at foot of preceding column). J