Tokyo, Nov. 2. Construction of 15 merchant vessels. people with free institutions.
"It is a remarkable fact that we were'able to enter upon a war with-cut imposing any new form of legislative control upon the regulation- of wages and working conditions.
"During the past twenty years, we have been steadily setting up, in each industry, joint through which representatives of employers and work. manage the -people affairs of their industries and settle "their own conditions.
"As I speak, this joint machinery able, is operating to adapt those conditions io war circumstances. In the fight for freedom, we have the inestimable gain of fighting with the aid of a free' organization EN d bara people to carry on their wor] way they have themselves decided.
"The powerful Trade Union movement in Gredt Britain is convinced that the war is against forces that threaten those institutions, and that endanger the liberty of work-peoples throughout the world.
For Germany Too "They believe that its object is to create circumstances in which their fellows in Germany will lieable to regain freedom to live their. own lives, and have again their own free organizations.
"Tomorrow afternoon there will take place the first meeting of the National Joint Advisory Council, to which the General Council of the Trade Union Congress and the British Employers Confederation have appointed representatives. These repre-.|sentatives will be in touch with all industries, and when I say that directly represented on one side or the other are agriculture, cotton, Fr. wool, shipping, engineering and retail distribution, it will be seen how great is the knowledge which is placed at the disposal of the Gov. ernment.
Go nounced Mr. R. G. Menzies, the Prime said that speedy and powerful bartered others for the British Admiralty.
Defensive guns would be mounted on sixty merchantmen. The personnel of the Australian Navy now numbered 10,000 men, Mr. Menzies said.
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