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Beautiful Love-Comedy- |1 I Patho's Gazette, &c. a Thursday, Friday, and Saturday- 1 I The NOTORIOUS QALLAQER t I Anot h er drama of "METRO prod ucti on, brimful of interest, and exciting from begia §B 5 ning to end. Without a dull moment in it. II^P- J U D EX -? I ? Episode 1. Thi is the latest Gaumont SoraJ, and though it is only in 10 B?isod?a is i generdIJ admitted to beone of the :finest serial* produced. ■' HOW'S YOUR POOR WIFE—A Homeland" Comedy production, f?turmaJa?Edge § and 3Eis Blanche Bella. • I P?the's Gazette, &c. i I ADMISSION = 3d.-Tax, Id.; 6d.-Tax, 2d.; 1¡-Tax, 3d. j ? Children's Matinee on Saturday at 10.15-id. only. 1 Merthyr District of Miners WANTED MINERS' AGENT FOR MERTHYR DISTRICT I AGE LIMIT NOT UNDER SO. full psrtioulart .L.f-}.. to be had from the Secretary.. Applications, with two references, to be seat in by the 14th day of NOVEMBER, 1917, to the District Secretary—EVAN JONES, M High Street, Oefn Coed, Merthyr Tydfil. Newport Notes. D.L.C. Class. The C.L.C. class has started its second session, the book now being studied it "V alu, Price and Protit," by Marx. Sonio most interesting discussions have already taken place; and the interest shown i« reflected in the increased and more punctual attendance. It looks as if there will be a good winter chus. Anyone interested ss invited to the I.L.P. Rooms, Charlea-atrect, Sunday, 11 a.m. I.L. P. and Industrialism. I.L.P. members are asked to set an example to the friends who attend the meetings, by being more regular and punctual in coming to "public and branch meetings. In the absence of Mr. Walton Newbold, M.A., through illness, the Saturday address at the I.L.P. Rooms was given by Mr. S. Fisher, of Wattsville. The; speaker gave a short account cf the Workers' Movement from the Guilds to the present Industrial Unionism. Only so far as the workers' power had been strong enough, had Parliament permitted reforms to be made. Usually Parliament had been a reactionary in- stitution aiming at keeping the workers "in their proper places," and so the workers must develop their industrial power, to obtain a pro- per reflection of their opinions in the political field. The chief means of obtaining this industrial power and political reflection was by education. This education had to be along the lines of In- dustrial History, showing that the present system of society had not always existed, and need not always exist; and also in Political Economy, to enable the workers to understand the foundation of the present corrupt system and any reformed system which a revolution in thought would bring about. It would, perhaps., l have been better to have concentrated activities on obtaining industrial power through educa- tion, than to have given so much energy to ob- taining representation in Parliament. Real, live, working-class, political and social revolu- tionary representatives would be obtained only as a reflection of the educated, revolutionary Democracy. All working-class organizations should pay more attention to industrial and political power obtained by greater attention to a fundamental working-class education. Triumphs of Despised Man. On Sunday evening Mr. Skinner gave an ad- dress on "The Triumphs of the Despised Man. With many interesting illustrations, he showed how the most advanced thinkers were perse- cuted and despised in their own time; but now their ideals and visions were considered the best and most practical. He drew parallels with our own time and prophesised that the men and causes which were despised to-day, would to- morrow be most faonowrecL Organisers Wanted. THE National Agricultural Labourers' and JL Rural Workers' Union require the ser- vices of several Organisers, and applicants should at once apply for form of application to R. B. WALKER, General Secretary, National Agricultural Labourers' and Rural Workers' Unioa, Wensum House. Hampton, Fakpnbarn, Korfoik. The action taken by the Joint Board and the "Statement" issued by the Labour Party, which are referred to in the following pages, deserve a reply. Here it is. It is addressed to the entire Laboar, Trade Union, and Socialist Organisations of Great Britain. Study it well, and discuss it in your Societies, for the future well-being of the Worklag-class Movement depends upon your verdict. N OW Deady pLs™ Now Ready. r.i:c THE TATTOOED MEN,' OR LABOUR LEADERS AND THE WORKERS' MONEY: I The full story told by FREDERICK TEMPLE, (Author of Interest, Gold and Banking," War Finance and the Worker," &e.). London THE COMMONWEALTH PRESS, I 118, Cannon Street E.C. 'Phone 597. 'Phone 597. WILLIAM TRESEDER, Lid. THE NURSERIES, CARDIFF. WREATHS CROSSES, CUT FLOWERS, &c. I BEDDING PLANTS. Asters, Stocks, Dahlias, Marguerites, Lobelia, I &c. Tois Thesbdek, Florist, Cardiff." BLANCHARO'S PILLS Are unrivalled for all Irregularities, etc., they speedily afford relief and never fail to alleviate all suffering. They supersede Peniyroyal,, Pill Cochia, Bitter, Apple, &c. Blanchard's are the best of all Pills for Women. Sold in boxes, lIlt, by BOOTS' Branches, and all Chemists, or post free, same price, from Leslie Martia, td, Chemists, 34 Dalston Lane, London Samples & valuable booklet seat free, Id. stamp. Merthyr General Hospital. SPECIAL GENERAL COURT OF GOVERNORS. A SPECIAL MEETING of the GENERAL COURT OF GOVERNORS will be held in the COUNCIL CHAMBER of the TOWN HALL, on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15th, at 8 o'clock in the evening (when all Governors are requested to atttend), to consider the following requisi- tions. (Signed) WILLIAM GRIFFITHS, Chairman. EDWARD EDWARDS, Secretary. November 1st, 1917. TO THE CHAIRMAN OF MERTHYR GENERAL HOSPITAL. Sir, Under the Provision of Rule 45 of the Mer- thyr General Hospital, we, the undersigned, being Governors of the said Hospital, request that a special Court of Governors be called on Thursday evening, November 1st, 1917, to dis- cuss and decide upon resolutions dealing with Rules as set forth below. Resolution 1 (Alteration of Rule 46). (a) That the whole of Rule 46 be deleted and the following be substituted, vij; — That there shall be a select body called the Executive Board, consisting of 36 Governors, to be made up as follows: The President, Vice- President, and Treasurer. Eighteen shall be direct Representatives of the Workmen Contri- butors, selected and appointed by the Workmen themselves. Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, CraW- Bros., Hill's Plymouth Co., and Nixon's Naviga- tion shall have one representative each, selected by themselves. The Honorary Medical' Staff shall select three of their number to represent them, and the remaining eight shall be elected at a General Court of Governors. In consideration of the eighteen direct repre- sentatives granted to the workmen, the work- men employed at the Dowlais Collieries and Steel Works, Cyfarthfa Collieries, and Plymouth Collieries shall contribute 4s. per annum for every adult, and 2s. per annum for every boy under 18 years of age, employed, to the funds of the hospital, and the employers named above shall, in respect of the representative. each granted them, contribute annually at least the maintenance cost of one bed each. The Employers, Workmen, and Medical Staff shall not, as Governors, take part in the elec- tion of the eight members allocated to the Governors. (b) Rule 49. Delete the word ".Five" and substitute Three," and after the word "annually," and before the word "and, insert "except every third year, when two shall go out of office." (c) Rule 3. Delete the words and rote," and add but shall not be entitled to vote except at meetings I of the Court of Governors." Resolution 2.—Medical Department. That the Honorary Medical Staff shall be formed of all the Panel Doctors in the area served by the Hospi tal-a Principal after two years' residence and an assistant. after five years) residence in the district. Resolution 3.—New Rule. Small bodies of workmen or Societies subscrib- ing the sum of £ 5 per annum shall be entitled to appoint a Governor. Yours faithfully, (Signed) B. J. WILLIAMS, See. I (Sgd) T. J. Evans, Cyfarthfa. D. W. Jones, Plymouth. Wm. Jones, Cyfarthfa. Enoch Jones, Dowlais Miners. H. E. Carter, Plymouth Miners. Idris Davies, Plymouth Miners. H. Davies, Cyfarthfa.. Governors. Requisition 2. TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF, THE MERTHYR GENERAL HOSPITAL. Ladies and Gentlemen, We, the undersigned, being Governors of the above Hospital, in pursuance of Law 149, here- by give notice that we desire a Special General Court of Governors to be called for the follow- ing purposes, viz. — To repeal Law No. 5 .of the Laws of the Mer- thyr General Hospital and in lieu thereof that the following Rule be adopted, viz.:—" That "the body of Workmen employed at the Dow- "lais Works shall, so long as they subscribe (I annuallv a sufficient sum to cover the cost of the maintenance of one Bed, be entitled to "nominate Five Governors; and if they sub- "scribe a sufficient sum to maintain two or more beds three additional Governors, so long as such subscriptions are continued. The bodies of Workmen employed at the Cyfarthfa Works, Plymouth Works, and Merthyr Vale Works shall have the Ijke privilege of nomi- (I nating Governors to the same number, upon the same conditions, it being a condition that Ci there must be a subscription in amount suffi- cient to cover the cost of a Bed before any I nomination from any one of the said Works can be made. The cost of a Bed is fixed at it £ 100." Dated this 5th day of October, 1917. WILLIAM GRIFFITHS. FRANK T. JONES. D. W. JONES. C. M. DAVIES. ARTHUR J. HOWFIELD. S. SANDBROOK. ROBERT GUNSON. Governors.
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Swansea labour Association. I COUNCILLOR DAVID WILLIAMS, J.P. TO I FIGHT SEAT. At a special meeting of the Swansea Labour Association held on Thursday last, to discuss the Parliamentary candidature for Swansea Town Division, Councillor David "Williams, J.P: of Swansea, was elected to contest the seat m the interest of Labour at the next election. It is to lioped comrades will rally to the flag, and win the seat for Labour. Councillor Dd. Williams is well known in Swansea and the neighbouring district for his activities in the Labour, Co-operative, and Socialist Movements. Workers rally, nothing is done without hard work. At the same meeting a resolution was passed unanimously protesting against the action of the Government in withdrawing the Education Bill from before the House of Parliament; and call- ing upon the Government to at once introduce the bill again. Sir Alfred Mond (Lib.) is the present M.P. for the town. At the last election Sir Alfred polled 6,500, against Mr. D. V. Meager'a (U.) 4,267.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. MRS. WILLIAMS and family, 9 Fairview Ter- race, desire to express their heartfelt gratitude to a large circle of friends for the innumerable messages of deep sympathy and comfort ex- tended to them in their recent sad trial; also to all the donors of the beautiful floral tributes.
Our Load of Debt.
Our Load of Debt. ON Tuesday the British Chancellor of the Ex- chequer introduced a Vote of Credit for £ 400,000,000. This means that during the first six months of the Government financial year, a period of inflated currency, high prices and hotch-potch finance, the Government has spent £ 1,237,000 a day more than Mr. Bonar Law esti- mated for. Despite the fact that Mr. Law en- deavoured to explain away all but the odd million as "recoverable." and likely to come back at some vague indefinite period, an en- deavour in which his predecessor, Mr. McKenna, lent him the valuable support of his weight, our people who have paused to consider the figures are hardly likely to draw consolation, as did the Government, apparently, from tho fact that in Germany the notoriously bad finances are worse. What do the figures signify? They signify a, debt at the moment of over £5,000,000,000, which will rise by the end of the financial year to a sum certainly not less than £ 6,000,000,000, which will carry an annual debt charge of £ 300,000,000 —to be conservative in our estimate. Our pre- war peace expenditure was roughly £ 200,000,000; but our post-war expenditure will alone add to this an annual additional charge of not less than £ 50,000,000 for pensions and other matters. So that if things got no worse than they are at the moment and the war was finished and the mess cleared up on the Budget estimate to the end of the financial year 1917-18 we shall be faced with a normal post-bellum expenditure of £ 550,000,000. With post-war ^Budgets as heavy as our present one, minus tl)epui-elv war excess profit tax, we shall be more tlitii C200,000,000 short of meeting the lowest possible annual charges against us. Everyone is agreed that we cannot go on living for ever by borrowing, and the problem of this huge expenditure and pro- bable deficit has got to be faced. With these figures before us we see how foolish is the man who argues that in the future we .shall not be put off when agitating for our sorely needed reforms with the story that" It cannot be afforded," as we were before. That argument only illustrates how we were "diddled" in the past; for the future it leaves us face to face with a sad reality that we positively shall not be able to afford it. Shall not be able to afford it, that is, if we allow the present system of raising our finance to prevail. There is a way out that has been emphasised by Philip Snowden and our members time and again throughout the past spendthrift two years, and was mentioned in Tuesday's debates in a watered-down fashion by W. Adamson, who represents West Fife at West- minster. That way is the Conscription of Wealth —the wealth that is the product wholly and solely of Labour applied to Nature; the wealth of the labourer that in all non-Socialistic ifnance is mortgaged for ever and ever, just as in the past it has been robbed from him as surplus value. It is true that Mr. Bonar Law has once told us that this way is impossible short of com- plete (socialisation; and it is further true that whilst Mr. Bonar Law on that occasion overshot the mark in that statement, yet there was a great deal of truth in what he said. When the peopl-e have reached the stage of insisting on the Conscription of Wealth in the national interests, it will mean that the economic and psychological effects of the times have disciplined them and brought them to the turning-point in social evo- lution when Socialism will have left its critical, negative state and will be boldly advancing. as the constructive positive system of Government with the immediate future in its possession. Apart from the Conscription of Wealth there seems no way out of the gloom with it as the principal plank in the platform of ,a, solid Demo- cracy determined on its realisation, the future of Socialism is intimately bound up. At the moment it seems to us that the principal task of Socialism is to concentrate its efforts upon the popularisation of the cry for the conscription of wealth by a clear exposition of the facus that Mr. Bonar Law's figures represent, and their visualisation in understandable concrete illus- trations of the reforms the attainment of which is barred by the burden that those figmes repre- sent.
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 Bargoed Notes. Food Vigilance Committee. I The Gelligaer Food "V igilance Committee met on Monday evening last in the Workmen's In- stitute, Bargoed, Mr, T. D. Matthews occupied the chair. Objection was taken at some remarks made by one or two members of the Food Con- trol Committee at a recent meeting, relating to the Vigilance C^ ommittee. Such remarks do not constitute healthy criticism. Complaints were received as to prices being charged in the Dis- trict for different articles of food—tea being sold at 5s. per lb., butter 2s. lOd. and 3s., Nestle's milk Is. 2d. per tin, cow's milk 6d. per quart at the farms, coal Is. 6d., Is. 8d. and Is. lOd. per bag. The secretary was asked to send on all parti- culars to the Food Control Coi nmittee, also pro- testing against the remarks nassed.. The pro- test is also to be sent to Gelligaer Urban Dis- trict of the Council: This Committee learns with satisfaction the suggested co-option of morn Labour representatives on the Control Commit- tee. Me.etings of the Vigil-alioe Committee will be held fortnightly in the future. Any complaints which persons may wish- to "bring to the notice of-the Committee should be. forwarded to the Secretary, Fred Lloyd, 71 Greenfield-street, Bar- goed. Women's Peace Crusade. I Last week a, good number of ladies met at the I.L.P. rooms to form a local section of the Women's Peace Crusade. It was there decided that they canvas all women in the district to help in the noble work for peace/ They accepted the offer or Mrs. Snowden to come and speak at a public meeting on December 2nd. ■ It was also decided to send for literature for a house- to-house canvas, and that they also meet the chapel congregations coming out of chapel some Sunday. They also decided to write to Miss Pallister and Miss T. Wilson Wilson for dates, Mrs. Richard Walters was appointed to the chair; Mrs. Horton (5 Woodville-road, Gilfach) was appointed as secretary, and Mrs. R. Arrow- smith as treasurer. A good collection was taken.
" Dartmoor."
Dartmoor." The rain has fallen mercilessly since daybreak. A dense drifting mist obliterates the outer world. fierce Nor'-Eaeter gale sweeps o'er the moor and screams with fiendish glee as it dashes itself against the prison walls. The slates rattle upon the roof. Miserable as are the outside condi- still more miserable are the conditions within. Rain trickles down the dirty white- washed corridor walls, eventually settling down in little pools in the crevices and hollows of time-worn flagstones. Little piles of dust, paper and matches, lie at the door of almosc every cell. Green, bilious-looking blankets, red- striped arrow-bespangled sheets hang dangling iJil. disorderly profusion over the corridor rails as far as the eye can see. This is Dartmoor, friends, at it appears to me, on this the 28th day of September, in the nineteen hundred and seven- teenth year of our Lord. As I gaze round my little cell, its four bleak white-washed walls, its cold grey floor and ceiling, its bolted door and iron-barred window, my heart becomes sick, tor I am reminded of the slothful progress of humanity. A hundred and four years ago to- day and this self-same cell was probably occu- pied by an American prisoner of war. And here it stands to-day, unaltered, even by so much as a nail. Behind these bars a few months ago the wild-spirited Sinn Feinner fought for liberty, and here I suffer for it to-day; and who knows but that some poor soldier who fights for it to-day may pine for it here to-morrow P Strange it is, but true, The road to Liberty lies through the prison gates.•' Sixteen months ago I was ar- rested, and since then I have been in five differ- ent prisons—Kilmarnock, Ayr, Barlinnie, Wake- field ciiid Dai tmoor, and if there be degrees of rottenness, this easily is the most rotten. We are away out on the bleak, lone moor (1,300 feet above sea level) completely isolated from human society. It is the dreariest of dreary places. Nothing but moor, moor, moor, as far as the eye can see. To give you an idea of the place, let me tell you, that only once in the history of the prison has a prisoner made complete escape. Many have tried it, but have either returned half- starved, half-mad and begged to get back, or (I am told) have been found, away down in the deep black gullies, .cold, stiff and dead. This is a terrible place for a man of sensitive, imagina- tive temperament. To peep into a punishment cell, with its three doors, against which a man mad with suffering could kick and scream un- heard till he felt unconscious or dead, or to peep into a store room, with its handcuffs, ankle chains and all the other implements of torture makes my flesh creep and my heart thump. Sometimes when I think of it all my wrath boils and surges through my whole body and threatens me with a white fire and only when I enter the quiet, calm, neglected graveyard do I return to sanity. There they lie, "star-spangled on. the grass," unknown, uncared for'the victims of a cruel age. Man is cruel, but nature is kind. She never forgete. The grass, bright with the dew of morn', shivers and casts its tears upon the parched earth. The robin chirps pensively from her bough. The ivy rustles eerily on the wall. A gaunt granite L cross casts its shadow across their graves, and all is quiet. No more these ears shall hear the tyrant's threat, nor eyes behold the captive bars, for they are free, free, free—free in death! "Beyond this place of wrath and tears" they smile pityingly upon a poor captive world. But, friends, this is the dark side of Dartmoor I have shown you. Dartmoor of to-day has another side,—bright to dazzling point, and the man who does not find humour here would not find salt water in the sea. We have here almost forty different religious sects and poli- tical parties. We have Quakers, P.B. 's, I.B.S.ers, I.L.P.ers, B.S.F.ers, Christian Scientists, Atheists, Salvationists, Anarchists, Deists, and heaven only knows what we, haven't got. On one door you will see a notice, Jesus Saves," on another Please leave no tracts— already saved," another "There • is joy in Heaven, while on the door opposite an Atheist will ask And, where the Hell's Heaven p Just now as I write all are praising God in their various ways. Some are singing, some are pray- ing, some are preaching. A Welshman beneath me sings, with religious fervour "The Land of my Fathei-s." Down in the yard a dozen poor shivering creatures are standi"ng in the ?ain singing "Away over Jordan. Hundreds are wishing they would go over Jordan and sing it. A cornet, two concertinas, two fiddles and clar- ion ette are going full blast, each at a different tune. "engioiis Englishmen and heathen Jews are f i' ?'in,), are frymg sausages, onions and cheese. Others are washing socks, shirts, and other garments, There are over a thousand of us here, and a more unique collection never dwelt under one roof. We are engaged on Work of National Importance!" I have followed many occupa- tions since coming on to this scheme, viz., sack- repairer, rope-maker, mat-maker, drainer, wood- cutter, etc., and after a year's experience I must solemnly declare that in all my experience I never yet witnessed such wilful waste of public money. Fancy farmers making mailbags, try- ing oakum and mat-making when the nation is supposed to be in a state of seige. If this Gov-j ernment does not come out of this war with clean hands, there is no reason why it should come out of it with dirty. feet.- We have door- mats that would stretch from Merthyr to Mel- bourne, mail-bags that would dry up the Atlantic if thrown in, rope enough to tie the' world in knots. The motto of the scheme seems to be All you who can make things of use, make things that are useless." But my fingers are growing cold, so I think I will creep away under my broad arrows. Everything here is tattooed with broad arrows from our bedclothes to our prayer books. I always look to see if they are not breaking out all over my body. I shouldn't be surprised if they did. The Song of the Ropemaker. We're workers of National Importance, To you of failing hopes we whisper hope, Though Rhondda should fail to find you rations; Fear not, dear friends, while we are making rope. What though your crops upon the land should perish, What though your imports sink beneath the wave, This hope within your bosom fondly cherish- We boys at Dartmoor still have power to save. Let croakers croak and prate about starvation, Remember Man lives not by bread alone," We've rope enough to hang the blessed nation, A yard or two will see you safely home. W.D.
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