WAR MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE 1917

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168 WAR MEMOIRS OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE profoundly regretted that he found it necessary to depart. But they realised that it was inevitable, in view of the complicated situation in Russia and its disturbing effect on the attitude of Labour throughout the Allied countries. The revolutionary movements which sprang up here in 1917 caused us for the time a good deal of anxiety and made urgent demands on our powers of statesmanship and tact.
CHAPTER V PROBLEMS OF LABOUR UNREST British industrial restlessness in 1914 — Fresh disturbances created by War — Contrasting conditions of soldier and civilian — All-round conscription impracticable — Immense development of state and industrial control — Private enterprise still normal method in industry — Emergency regulation of labour essential — Labour grievances increase — Russian Revolution stimulates sedition — The Shop Steward movement — Attractive job to agitators — Defects of Trade Union organisation — Rank and file movement — Position in regard to strikes — Engineering strike at Barrow — Cabinet's firm action — May engineering strikes — Government stands firm: ringleaders arrested — Cost of the strikes — Workers sound at heart — Danger of leaving grievances without remedy — Letter of Master of Balliol — Commission on industrial unrest — Terms of appointment — Conscription dodgers — Leeds Socialist Conference — Four resolutions — My refusal to suppress conference — Its principal outcome — Seamen's attitude justified — Work of Commissions on Industrial Unrest — Food shortage and high prices — Restrictions on labour — Combing-out causes trouble — Blunders of recruiting officers — Local grievances — Summary of commissioners' recommendations — Steps taken to deal with food problem — Wage rate difficult—Munitions of War Act, 1917 —Birth of Whitley Councils — Reconstruction Committee appointed. Proposals of Whitley sub-committee — General approval by employers and Trade Unions — First Whitley Council — Industrial unrest abroad — Influence of the King in preserving industrial peace. OF all the problems which Governments had to handle during the Great War, the most delicate and probably the most perilous were those arising on the home front. The issue in prolonged wars has always depended largely on the spirit of the peoples who waged them. That axiom was more applicable to this struggle than to any other war of which records exist, for the whole manhood — and womanhood — of the belligerent nations were organised for war and had been drawn into the war machine. Armies might gain successes or meet with reverses; but once great nations had become thus mobilised for war, they could not be forced to surrender unless their home front broke down. That hap-
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Copyright, 1934, BY DAVID LLOYD GEO
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ILLUSTRATIONS THE IMPERIAL WAR CABI
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CHAPTER I THE IMPERIAL WAR CABINET
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IMPERIAL WAR CABINET AND CONFERENCE
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APPENDIX B AGENDA FOR THE FORTHCOMI
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APPENDIX D SUMMARY OF REPORT OF LOR
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CHAPTER II THE STRUGGLE WITH THE TU
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THE STRUGGLE WITH THE TURK 67 Turki
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CREATING THE AIR MINISTRY 103 advan
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INDEX ADDAMS, JANE, calls on Lloyd
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Caillaux, M., charged with high tre
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G.H.Q., and the Flanders offensive,
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