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Fear or Love ? I
Fear or Love ? I THE TWO WAYS OF LIFE. THE HON. BERTRAND RUSSELL'S MER- THYR ADDRESS. THE FUTURE LIES WITH PACIFISM, The series of meetings organised by the Mer- th vr and District Peace Council were continued on Sunday in the Rink, when the Hon. Bert- rand Russell opened his four days' Peace Cam- paign in the Merthyr Boroughs, and added one more to the distinguished meetings which have attracted large audiences to the Rink du- ring the past few months. These meetings, as Mr T. E. Entwistle (the Chairman on Sunday) remarked will become historic. for no town has had such tremendous audiences to list-en to the orations on Peace of the most eminent Socialists of the country, some of the greatest of the Democratic politicians, and eminent scholars such as the Hon. Bertrand Russell. Although Sunday- was a line day following a week of bad weather, the opportunity which might have been expected to persuade our peo- ple to take a walk in the country or the park, the inclination was resisted and the audience was a large one—as good, in fact. as those which gave Mr Ponsonby and Mr Trevelyan such good receptions, and these receptions were brought forcibly to mind by the enthusiasm with which the thousands gathered greeted the author of the Everett Pamphlet. and punctuated his remarks. MR. T. E. ENTWISTLE, m his speech from the chair dwelt upon the righteousness of the cause of Conscience," and drew parallels be- tween the "strong" characters of the Old and New "Testaments, and the men who to-day were undergoing imprisonment for Conscience sake. Much was heard, he said, of a New Creation; but what was it to mean ? If it was to be based on physical force, then our last state would be worse than our first, and if we had to leave it to the diplomats to make the arrangements. then it would be based on physical force. The HON. BERTRAND RUSSELL, who was greeted on rising with loud and continued cheers, spoke of the great honour he conceived it to be allowed to speak in that constituency, which was known to all lovers of Freedom as the constituency of Keir Hardie. (Cheers.) Keir Hardie was a brave and honest and fear- less man--and amongst politicians they were none too common. If we had more men like Keir Hardie; if we had a large number like him in Parliament, and in the affairs of the nation, we should not 'be now in the position in which we were to-day. This war was being fought for things which no man knew. If you asked the ordinary man in the street who sup- ported the war what it is that we are fight- ing for. he would tell us that we were fight- ins; to secure a stable peace, and that we could not be safe untii the Germans. were bea- ten to their knees. If we were in Germany, and addressed the question to an ordinary German, he would tell us the same thing. He would say We cannot be safe until the Allies are beaten to their knees." Was it not a strange- thing to have all the tuitions of Europe struggling to de- stroy each other, wasting their best, and the present war. by the account of everyone of them, was being fought in order to get Peace? There was a very easy way tQ get Peace, and that was to make Peace. (Cheers.) Why did not men take that* road? Why did the war continue when all desired to have Peace? The peoples of all the countries were being deceived by them Governors and newspapers. They were not told that in the enemy countries the people de- sired Peace as much as they did; they did not know that they could obtain now. if they would, a, just and honourable Peace— a Peace which should not sacrifice anvbod, to the ruth- less tyranny of an alien government. He thought that out of this strange fact that everywhere men were prolonging the war only because they wanted Peace, there was a hope to be drawn for the future. A soldier re- turning to the front after recovering from wounds, and not expecting to see England ag- ain had told him in a train conversation, "We are not fighting for .ourselves. We are fighting for our children and our grandchildren. and there will never be another war." He honoured thatman-(cheers)but he did not honour the Governments which made him believe that this war was going to be the end of war. (Cheers.) The peoples everywhere, since they had seen what war was, desired war to end; the Govern- ments. he was afraid, did not wish that war should end. The view of the men who conduct- ed the affairs of what were called the great Powers was to extend the commercial develop- ment to what were called undeveloped coun- tries. The men who desired to invest in the development of these undeveloped countries were the men who conducted the press, the publicity, the w hole machinery of the Government. These were the men who could manufacture opinions, could tell the people what they desired, and withhold what they wished; and so long as the people continued to believe what was told them by men who had interests at heart, so long would the people be kept out of the heritage which should be theirs. We had been told that we were in the war to liberate Belgium and protect France. The Germans had over and over again said that they would evacuate Belgium when Peace negotiations were made and so, if we desired to liberate Belgium, and protect France, we would make Peace to-morrow. But it was not only for such things that the Gov- ernments were fighting. He did not know the definite things for which we were fighting, for we were not allowed to know. Yet we heard strange stories of bargains with the Russians about Constantinople, and with Italy about Dal- mati-a. These were the sort of things for which Governments did fight; these were not the sort of things which they said they were figkting for. There was a wonderful thing for which we were fighting in the early days—to destroy Prussian Militarism. A very noble object truly. An object being pursued, perhaps by wiser me- thods by our Comrade Kail Liebknecht (Cheers.) Our Comrade Leibknecht came of a noble source. His father—whom the speaker knew years ago in Berlin—was the one member of the German Reichstag who protested against the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine. Leibknecht had a clean re- cord he he had the right to protest against Prussian Militarism, and Prussian Militarism had awarded him 21 years of imprisonment. Leibknecht wa.s praised bv our newspapers. The Daily News." and the Daily Express "—the Liberals and Tories--vied with each other who should praise him most. But this praise, of Leibknecht by our newspapers was dishonest praise, for they were not trying to do the work here he was doing there. We were the com- rades of Leibknecht, we were the men who were fighting his own battle, and we could hold out the hand of friendship to thooe who were stan- ding out against the German War Party. There was not in this war two parties- the Ger- mans and the Allies. That twas not the real division of the world—the real division was into the friends of war and the friends of Peace. And, he said, we stood nearer to the German r'riends of Peace than the English friends of war. And it was for us, and those in other countries who thought as we did, to begin-whian there was an occasion at the end of the war-to build up a new International eo-operai*«n and friendship. It was only those who had stood out against the war in all the different coun- tries who could go honestly to the men of the countries now our enemies and say: Again we wish to build up the International unitv of Eu- rope, working together for ends of civilisation." It rested with us to carry on that mission in the future, and that was why the Peace Par- ties of the world—small as they were—that had the future in their hands. He desired to say a few words about the id- wals for which the" Governments seemed to stand in this wax. We had all heard of the Eco- nomic Conference held in Paris. Was anything proposed at that Conference in the way of Eu- ropean unity? Anything that would heal the wounds brought by the war No not one word of that sort was uttered. It was proposed that we should establish after the war the economic boycott of Germany; that we should continue after the war to inflict as much damage as the Allied countries could do without fighting. Was that a proposal which had been made by men who honestly desired Peace in the world F Was it to be imagined for one moment that by such means the wounds that existed between our- selves and Germany could be healed? Would it be possible to bring about a fuller, more gene- rous outlook between the nations if we were go- ing on the policy of starving out the German when this war was over? A proposal such as that would never have come from men who de- sired that* this war should end war. (Cheers.) There did not exist in the world even so much reason for continuing the war as there did a year ago. No one could doubt that the Ger- ?iliati nation was utterly weary of the war. Ev- ery day we had fresh proof of that. No one could doubt that every country engaged in this war was utterly weary of it. If we had Peace to-morrow, could it be thought that any nation which had gone through this war would toler- ate another war so long as there was one left alive with a memory of the present ? He said there was not one. and least of all the Germans, who had had the most terrible experi- ence of us all We could afford now to make a generous Peace, and a. just Peace, i which was not a Peace extorted by force; not one forced upon an unwilling and humiliated enemy. We could afford at this late date to recognise that force was no remedy for the evils of this world. That you could not- by force aI-I ter ihe temper of a. people for the better. If we really wanted to destroy the military spirit of Prussia, we were mad to take those very means which had raised the military spirit amongst the peoples. The things which were of most value in life could not be lost or gained on the battle- field—tht\y were the spiritual and mental pos- sessions. (Cheers.) If we ttivied some of the money being spent on war in the direction of a wider, broader and better education we should have given to the people something infinitely more precious than the barren victories we were seeking for in France,. (Cheers.) He i,ioticecl--and he thought it a very sinister fact —that the first economies practised by our Gov- ernment were practised in education. Yet edu- cation was the most important of all the things that the Government had to do. Without education we were powerless, or nearly power- less, against those who, merely by superior knowledge, could tell us what was not really the truth—though it might be truth as they saw it. UntiF the Democracies of Europe were thoroughly educated, and thoroughly aware of the things they ought to be aware of. they could not control their own affairs. They were the facts that laid within a man's own soul that were of most value, and these facts could not bo taken away from him. These were the on- ly things for which even riches were to be va- lued There was no other good to be got out of material possessions except the opportunity they gave for enlarging the mind. and storing the soul with the things which were worth having there. In whom did we find this fundamen- tal spirit of Christianity alive to-day ? It was amongst the Socialists of the world; it was am- ongst those who would not believe it was im- possible to live by the law of love who would not consent to the theory that it was only by destruction of others that we could live our- selves. That theory was not true. There were two ways by which men could live they could by hate and fear, or they could live by love and hope. They could live' in the thought of 1 what harm others could'do them. and in the thought of the good they could do unto oth- ers. The first was the way of militarism, and the srcond was the way of passivism, and the way of passivism was the way to happiness; it was the way of all that was good in the world; it was the way to realise those hopes which men had cherished who had spoken of Socialism and reform, who had thought in their dreams that the world rnighthet better. These men were beginning to be a power in the world when war broke out—(cheers)—but war had put things back. War had brought back the dom- inion of fear—unworthy of brave men. Meeting at Abercanaid. I The Peace Meeting advertised to take place at Abercanaid School on Monday July 10, had to be held in the open air at the corner of Zion Chapel, owing to the cancelling of the former arrangement by Mr Rhys Elias, the Merthyr Director of Education. The speakers —the Hon. Bertrand Russell and the Rev. Geo. Neighbour—put in their appearance despite the opposition met with mentioned above, while. the Rev. Enoch Hughes, pastor of Zion Chapel, occupied the chair. The Chairman briefly outlined the purposes for which the meeting was called, and also al- luded to the Government Circular on War Sav- ings which had come to his hand that day concerning which he deprecated the manner of the appeal to children as to the nature of the war. Mr Russell made a comparison between Prus- sian and British Militarism so far as the two had dealt with their Conscientious Objectors. He referred to the ca.se of Herr Liebknecht, Social- ist Member of the Reichstag, who was sentenced to 2h years' imprisonment, and the sentences passed upon the British Conscientious Objectors in France, who were sentenced to be shot, and whose sentences were commuted to periods ran- ging up to 10 years' penal servitude. Mr Russell went on to say that he would always raise his voice in favour of bringing about Peace as speedily as it was possible, and also against the tyranny that was going on amongst us towards those who disagreed with the war policy. He hoped that by such an advocacy sufficient public feei.ng would he created so as to put an end to the enormous slaughter that was going on day by day; to bring all the belligerent gov- ernments, who were equally to blame for this terrible conflagration. together to consider Peace terms. The great expenditure of money on the war—upwards of £ 5,000.000 per day — he thought, should be diverted into nobler uses, to social improvements and higher Demooracy. i That vast sum. beyond the grasp of imagination, I which was willingly squandered to find new lands for our capitalists to exploit, would be, and has been, impossible to get to provide for better conditions for every man, woman and child of the nation Mr Neighbour said that this war had come upon us and found organised religion and every other kind of organisation totally •unprepared. He said it shamed his dignity as a Minister of the Gospel that it should be so. Giving a definition of religion, he quoted a prophet of old. saying—something which burned in his bosom seeking expression. Some such feeling expressed itself in the interior of Vesuvius, which, from time to time, found expression in its volcanic eruptions. Whenever such senti- ment of faith, or religion, or economic ideal, or what you will, was felt—it likewise had to per- force find a vent. Peace agitators were called dreamers, but he thought there were two kinds of dreamers—those who dreamt and forgot the dreams upon awakening, and those who dreamt and rose from dreams to work to realise them, lJ10 hoys who were to-day hghting in the tren- ches conscientiously he honoured. Those boys who were persecuted for Conscience sake in pri- sons and detention barracks he was proud of, for they were fighting the cause of Freedom and Humarfcty. John Bunyan was so imprison- ed for speaking of his dreams, but he dreamt, and spoke more eloquently within prison walls than without. They might imprison men's bodies, but they could not fetter men's souls1 when they sought utterance. His son, who was a good songster, frequented concerts and free- and-easys, when he was at liberty, still kept on singing in the detention barracks; and when he stopped singing, and the interval was too long, the guards asked him'for another song. Rising again, Mr Hughes said he was much honoure d by being chairman for the occasion, and related the story concerning the recent pro- secution of the Hqju. Bertrand Russell, and the imprisonment of the Cefn boys for the dis- tribution of the Everett pamphlet, of which the Professor was the author. Mr Russell pub- licly announced in the Times" that if any- one should suffer for that pamphlet, it was he- as it was his work. Coun. L. M. Jones gave an explanation of the refusal of the school for the meeting, showing how the aetion had contravened a stan- ding resolution of the Council? to loan the schools for political purposes, and the Council's ?sutpp.ort of that action, as well as the attitude of fhe Plymouth Ward members in the matter. —A vote of protest was carried with but one dissentient.
I A New War Parliament.
I A New War Parliament. DR. ARTHUR TURNBULL'S APPEAL IN MERTYHR. TO SHORTEN THE WAR. ,"I Speaking at We Kink, Merthyr. on Monday night, Dr. Arthur Turnbull, late of the R.A M.C., and ex-Parliamentary Candidate for Derry, declared that the remedy for the blood- shed and slaughter of this war was in the hands of Britain, and he believed it would not be until Britain exercised that remedy that this war would be brought to an end. He did not deny that military victory for the Allies was possible, but he claimed that this would not be the means of bringing about a permanent jus- tice and law and older in Europe. It was only Great Britain which possessed the right of five speech, at the present moment, and that for the reason that she had enjoyed the ex- pression of her opinion for centuries; and in the House of Commons she possessed the means of expressing the strong powerful opinion of her people which no other Government of Eu- rope possessed. He claimed that it was for Britain to make up its mind whether it was 'prepared in this great struggle to mobilise not only its wealth and Army but also its Parlia- mentary institutions as well, with a view to obtaining the speedy victory we all desired to see consummated. The present Parliament was for the most part 10 years old, and he claimed that a Parliament which was elected in times of Peace was not the Parliament either to bring ai: early Peace or wage war successfully. The present administration would be strength- ened and supported if they would take the verdict of the country, which it would have to sooner or later. He believed that if we had not- merely a. British Government and a British Army. but also a direct vote of the British people through the House of Commons upon the issue of the war, then the British Govern- ment would be tremendously strengthened. This would shorten the war. because it would drive home to the minds of the German Government that they were not only opposed to the British Army and Government, but also the whole Brit- ish people. Unless this was done the German people would only draw the inference that the British Government were afraid of its people. Then. again, it would be the means of putting it within the power of the British Government to put down in black and white what object they were striving to attain; it would be ena- bled to state the terms of settlement that it fa- voured. Everyone had an opinion and he would suggest the 'retirement to the exact land limits each occupied on August, 1914; the Germans to give up Alsace-Lorraine, leaving the compensa- tion for damages to France. Belgium, Servia and the settlement of Poland in the hands of the President of the United States. He did not consider it, weak to state the terms of Peace, because Germany was undoubtedly get- ting the worst of it, and it was sporting to say to all opponent who was getting the worst of it, "Have you had enough?" Moreover, this withdrawal would be the best means for smash- ing German militarism, for the Germans would .have failed- and the Bureaucrats who ran the Prussian Army system would look ludicrous, and nothing killed like ridicule. If Germany was destroyed into the dust the machinery was merely forced into the ha.nds of the German military bureaucrats. British union and a clear and just statement of terms would assist Ger- man disunion, and would therefore shorten the war. It was up to the nation which was the freest the most westernly, and the most de- tached in Europe to take the lead m this .matter
ABERDARE
ABERDARE \BKKDARE INSURANCE CASE.—Benjamin Dav- ias was last week charged before the Aberdarse Bench with three offences under the National Insurance Act.- Mr Trevor Hunter (instructed- by ??' HaYdn Jones, Caa'di?) prosecuted, and Mr W. Thomas defended. It was alleged that accused, who was a volun- tary contributor under the Act, and a member and official of an approved society, used stamps which had been removed from other material, and evidence was given as to gum and cancel- lation marks. The Bench did not consider there was fraudu- lent intent, and discharged the accused. Mr Hunter said ihe matter would be reported to the Commissioners.
A Tragedy of Drink.
A Tragedy of Drink. SORDID STORY OF DOWLAIS COKE OVEN MAN. WIFE KICKED LIKE A FOOTBALL. TINY CHILD AND "THERE WILL BE A CORPSE IN THE HOUSE TO-NIGHT." I heard him say there will be a corpse in the house to-night, and he hit my mother while she was in bed," as little Bridget Ann Corbett (9)—too young to be sworn-lisped out her story of the opening of that awful, sordid tragedy of Cwmcanol Street, Dowlais. at the in- quest 'on Monday, in a, frightened whisper, one felt keenly the tragedy of it all—the unhappy married life the drink inflamed madness of the giant coke oven worker, all of whoso natural viciousness was intensified by John Barley- corn the slip of the woman so soon to lie a bruised and battered corpse; the blood; and, the half-startled, hartf-frightened. half-interested little wan faces of the two little ones whose lives henceforth are to be darkened by the shadow of the woman so suddenly gone to death. Few crimes have been more sordid than this of Daniel Sullivan's wife, staying at 20 Cwm- canol Street; yet one is tempted to wonder that his crime is not more frequent than it is. lie himself a big labourer, possibly the product of a race of labourers, hustled through school with the modicum of the education that should have disciplined his mind; nothing in the hard work to stimulate thought or give that discip- line without which the elemental passions are our masters a sordid environment; marriage el-ill,cli-c-ii, drink, worry and the last sordid scene with its blood, its brutality, and the morbid curiosity of the outside crowd, who might have found gratification in Wagner, had their lives not been cast in the atmosphere of the ferocious woodcuts of the screaming criminal pa- pers. It is not enough for those who have not had to live the lives of the Sullivans to shrug our shoulders and say" Drink." Drink may be the main immediate contributory cause, but was there any room in such a life for anything '?' '? elsel)eyond "Drink" The story of Catherine Sullivan's death has often before been told, though the victim's name has always been different, and yet we have not learned the lesson sufficiently well to try and carve down to the root causes we ..L° 1 _L l! 1 sugp snort at aruiK. The story was told in full at the Dowlais Inn, Dowlais, on Monday, when the Coroner, in swearing the jury, told them that they had a rather serious case to deal with, and he would reserve his remarks to the close. The deceased, Catherine Sullivan (35) was, according to the evidence of her sister and neighbour in Cwmcanol Street, a widow with two children, when, seven years ago this month she married Daniel Sullivan, a labourer on the coke ovens. Her sister and Sullivan never ag- reedand the sister did not think they had a mont. h's happiness in the whole of their ma,rried life It was a "cat and dog life," and he was had to her drunk or sober. She herself had ad- vised Her sister to leave him and go "on the Union," since Sullivan had always told her (witness) that he would "swing" for his wife. She was with her .sister-whom she had not seen from 8 o'clock on Saturday morning — when she died at 3-5 a.m. on Sunday. Frederick John Corbett, (13), the son of the deceased by her first husband, told how he re- turned from play on Saturday night -at 9-30. and on entering the house found his step-father kicking his mother, who was on the floor be- tween the back and front kitchens. The lad rushed out crying to bring his aunt (the prev- ious witness), but she was out, and he hurried to Pond Street for another friend of his mo- ther's, but she was asleep. Again he went home, only to find the step-father still kicking the body. He told the man to "stop it, as she had had enough," but the step-father came towards him, and lie again ran out, this time to the Po- lice station, to return with two oiffcers. Bridget Ann Corbett, the other step-child of the man's, a tiny slip of a thing 9 years old, whom the Coroner refused to swear, told how her mother went to bed cm Saturday night, and how later the step-father came home with a bottle of whiskey (the Chief Constable pointed out that it was rum), and asked her where her mother was. She told him, and iv l ie,re she licai' d hill) he entered the bedroom, where she heard him say "There will be a corpse in the house to- night." and saw him beat her mother as she lav in bed. He then pushed the woman out of bed and started to kick her whilst she was on the floor. Her mother never got off the lfoor, and her step-father kicked her (deceased) from the bedroom door, across the kitchen to the back kitchen. Her mother, who had had nothing to drink in the houss that night, was quiet when she was being kicked—"she could not scream." Her step-father was drunk. She was frightened, and ran out to find her bro- ther. Mrs. Mary Ann Ryan told how she was called in the house by a. police officer at 9.30, and helped to lift the deceased, who was bleeding very much, on to he bed. Sul- livan was then sitting on a. chair in a, corner in the kitchen with the little girl in his hands. He was very drunk. P.S. Davies recounted how )ie was called to the house, and found the woman clad practical- ly only in a man's shirt, lying unconscious on the lfoor, bleeding profusely. He called in neigh- bours, and had the bodv placed on the bed, and then asked Sullivan how he accounted for the affair, to which the man replied, My wife is always drunk." SullIivan himself was very drunk at the time. P.S. Bevan. who visited the house in company with Dr. Brennan about 11 p.m.. and from what the Doctor told him arrested Sullivan, who was then in the fowl-house at the back. On tl-ie,way to the Police Station Sullivan became very violent, and witness had to throw him on his back and summons further assistance to take him to the station. At the station he charged Sullivan with doing grievous bodily harm to his wife, to which Sullivan replied, I would not have done it if I were not in drink." About 3.25 a.m.. witness was informed that the wo- man had expired, and he returned to the house, where he took charge of certain articles produced—including the blood-saturated shirt-- which he produced. With these he returned to the police station, and obtaining the heavy right boot which Sul- livan was wearing. he examined it and found it to be stained with blood at the side and on the toe. At 7-45 a.m. he had SuWivan brought from the cells to the charge room where he formally charged him with murdering his wife. Sullivan said: "She is dead? I have nothing at all to say." Inspector Lamb spoke of his visit to the house on Saturday night and told how t here he found the woman lying in bed unconscious her face covered with small coal and as black as a collier's; and the features covered with blood and coal dust mixed. She was also bleed- ing profusely from a wound at the bottom of the back. He examined the floor of the bed- I room leading out into the kitchen and foun clots of congealed blood in some holes betweefl the flags of the bedroom, and at the back of the front door which was close by; and a large quantity of loose blood all over the place, Cloae by the bedroom door in the kitchen there were splashes of blood on the wall. Leading- from the kitchen to the back kitchen be found a large blood stain in the doorway. On the table lie found the bottle produced (emp- ty), which then was half full of nUll; the sister (Mrs. Grant) had thrown the rum away. Inspector Lamb had known Sullivan for years. He was a man addicted to drink was drunk almost every night—and was rathe violent when sober as well as when drunk. Dr. Kraneis-Wflliains, who saw the woman a midnight on Saturday—when she was pulseless —and who conducted the post-mortem on SUIU3 day. said that examination revealed a shocking story of abrasions and bruises, starting with t f! scalp wound IJin, long at the back of tht head; and practicaHy covering the whole body ? a?'ms and hands. The body was extensivelv i vered with bruises, which could have been PI' duced by repeated acts of violence. Some 0 them could have been caused by a person falling about, but from the collect if* nature of the injuries they must have produced by repeated acts of violence. InternalW of v loleucc?. Intei-n,?i l W the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tentb right ribs were fractured; the, seventh an ninth in two places, and the last four rife had perforated the pluva. There was a sligi I h ei-.e wa,? a s l l 'i-7I laceration of the right lung. He was of t opinion that death was due to loss of .olod from the laceration in the fork of the body and shock. The laceration could not have bee caused by the woman falling about, but iiiiis have been due to direct violence applied to he' body.. The Coroner, in reviewing the evidence, satf he would not waste many words over the easo" since it was distinctly a. case of murder, a. they believed the evidence before them. The [ woman, seemed to have been kicked from tbe bedroom to the back kitchen and feack again- She had been kicked like a football all oveJ the body. There was hardly a square inch | of the body without a scratch or bruise. Th husband did it. There was no excuse for hifl1 that he was drunk at the time. Even if b. was drunk, and mad drunk, still a man waS supposed to contemplate the consequence 0 his acts; and in this case the man was, in th eyes of the law, responsible. After a brief consultation in private, the jurj unanimously returned a verd ict of "Murder'1 against Sullivan. Outside the iim. a huge crowd mostly of wo men. had congregated.
I Charged in Court.I
I Charged in Court. I ADJOURNMENT UNTIL FRIDAY. I Later on Monday, Daniel Sullivan was cliarg, ed before a Special Court at Merthyr Wie- the wilful murder of his wife, Catherine. The prooeedings were purely formal, and the cafi* was adjourned until the Court on Tuesday. On Tuesday ho was again brought before tlie,, Magistrates. The Chief Constable said that in .this case M was in communication with the Director of. Public Prosecutions, from whom he expected tQ hear in the course of the day, and under tW circumstances he asked that the case should 11 remanded until Friday. Mr J. W. Lewis (for the accused) said that lie! was obliged to concur with this course, and tb4 Court agreeing, the proceedings were closed in > few minutes after the appearance of Sullivan 111 the box.
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LLANELLY [ A srnviusiM; STATEMENT.—A matter of grave concern to this country has been revealed by the comments made by the Carmarthen Appeal Tribunal upon the case of Mr Dan Griffiths (the well-known Llanelly schoolmaster and Socialist). Mr Griffiths was granted absolute exemption by the Local Tribunal, but the Appeal Tribunal varied the decision upon the appeal of the mili- tary, and placed him on Non-Combatant Serv- ice. In their notes to the Central Tribunal. whase final decision is expected shortly, the Carmarthen Tribunal state:—" The Tribunal had grave doubts as to whether the objections set out by this applieant in his grounds of ap- l peal were such Conscientious Objections as were contemplated by the Act of Parliament. emphatically declined to base them on anV 1ELTG10es grounds. He described himself a,s 3 lecturer on Socialism. The question for the Tri- bunal was whether the political views held b? the applicant justified them in exempting hi? from any form of militarv service. The Trlhul! decjined to exempt the applicant from all mili- tary service on condition of his undertaking work of national importance, both because tbef did not consider the case so exceptional as to' iustify this, and hcause they had in mind that it might involve his continuing to follow the* occupation of a schoolmaster at Danetty, whicft at the present time they considered extremely undesirable, They therefore decided to grant hi"? l an exemption from combatant service only- and they have given leave to appeal in compli- ance with Circular R. 84. Mr Griffiths' cas is being watched by a Local Defence Commit tee, who are in close and constant touch with a number of Members of Parliament, The N.U.T is also hkelv to take action. GOOD NEWS.—I wrote in a prophetic vein last' week, when 1 stated it was the Mou?ers' turn to have a bite at the carrots; I bel pardon. [ should say, go in for an increase of wages. There is going to be a big "push" 011; the A.S.E and the Moulders are "joining hands across the seas of craft prejudices and jealeusies. Who knows, maybe the compilers of next year's Labour Year Book" may have to record a lesse-i- number of Unions in the Metal Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades at pre- f, sent they amount to 186. exclusive of the so- called unskilled. T have been asked why I do not provide you with such newsy items as the Gorseinon chaps do. How can I? I am not aware that we have many sermons like the one reported froif1. the Viclar of Gorseinon to enthuse about, and my acquaintance with the less orthodox breth- ren is somewhat limited. Some day, mayhap. X shall try my hand at an "Open Letter to Mr. Doekeray. At present I am too busy putting iIi 13 to 24 hours per day in order to secure en- ough of a. "living wage" so that I can d, it again the following week. I pray you, ivrr. Editor, be not deceived by Mr. Dookeray's bu te to your powers I would like to meet ;"he men responsible for making us dissatisfied with our lot. They must be clever beings.
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