TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 101%. " Appeal for Volunteers by Citizens' Liberty League for Election Day {CONVEY ANCES and sgrutineers are ur- A gently needed to assiA the Citizens' Liberty League on ElectiodilDay, Monday, October, 20th. The Leagfe is a purely volun- ; organization and it/trusts that all who are in favorof the work/it is doing will come forward and volunteer assistance. NC Volunteer scrutineers are needed to represent the League at each polling booth. Volunteers of motor cars 'and carriages are needed to carry voters to and from the polling booths. If vou are in accord with the representative menand women of the Citizens' Liberty League, and are willing to give the practical assistance needed, please communicate with the under signed, or the Seeretary of the League in your district. : . Please get in touch with your local secretary to-day either by telephone or fill in the coupon below. Citizens' Liberty League DR. J. G. 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A lowed "1 i Railway being drunk and disorderly. company thereupon reduced him to a THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 500000000000000PE00000004 Other British t Railway Strikes Llp lr P IP OPPOO DOPOD NCE before there was a gen- i ke in Bri- 1911, and 3 gnition a also by en and At onal Union of Rail- strikes of s rkers in shat he Nat rkers. was year not in existence, rison 5 by walk-out in ng only about 1,600 get their gr by the Conciliation Wie local not lev- existence so with ion this move was fol- by strik n many other cities a nation-wide strike The executives of unions concerned met in gession and issued an ring in twenty-four rike was called o A It was not universal, but the service and brought many tories to a standstill. As a result of a conference between representatives of the companies and the unions held at the Board of Trade a settie- thent wi eached and work was ree sumed after four days on August 21. In 1907 there id been a threat ened general strike, a was on this occasion Mr. Lloyd George, then president of the Board of T great glory negotl and the call for became the Joint tm four nd nd hat by it- is necessary to understand that labot's viewpoint of the Lloyd George settlement of 1807 is that it was anything but a famous settlement the men On the contrary, the were inclined to the bélief tha were hoodwinked on that that the settlement gave them noth- ing of real value. Its malin reature was an elaborate system of Concilia- tion Boards, which the men said got them nowhere, and the breakdown of which eventually led to the general strike of 1911 2 |" As a developiaent of {he 1811 agi- tation and strike came the organiza- tion of the National Union of Rail- waymen, co only known as the { N. U. R., which absorbed practic y all the other unions in England, Wales and Scotland, with the excep- tion of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The N R. includes all grades of railway workers, whilethe A. S. LL. E {and F. is sectional, as its name im- | plies. There has been much rivalry between the two organizations, and the N. U. R. claims to have more drivers and firemen than the sec- tional union' itself, but there is af- filiation between' the two organiza- tions, and in the present strike, as in most other disputes in the past, for 3 ey ores { they make common cause. Other strikes bave been of a local ! character, but some of them are his- toric. There was, for example, the | famous strike which is known as the strike for the "Right to get drunk." | The circumstances were interesting, { Driver Knox of the Northeastern was convicted in court of The lower grade. Without authorization the Northeastern Railway employes spontaneously ceased work and the system' was practically tied up. On the face of it the men seemed to have a bad case, though perhaps not as bad in England as it would be re- garded in this country. It was con- tended, however, that not only was! Driver Knox off duty at the time of the offence which resulted in his con- viction, but that as it\was Saturday night, he would not be on duty for! twenty-four hours, that 'even if he was drunk he would have (ime to | sober up before Monday, and further Fit was claimed that he had not been drunk at all, and that the conviction 1 by the magistrate had been a mis-| ° At all events the | carriage of justice. Government sent a special commis sioner who re-tried the case, gqnashed the previous sentence and Knox was reinstated by the company. The men, however, who went on strike on his behall were subjected | 1 | mounting the top and there announc- | to deductions from their pay. There were serious in the railway { famous Dublin dispute of 1913. | various parts of Great Britain sym | pathetic s'rikes broke out, | mén belie' bd they were being com | pelled to ).&ndle ""taiited goods" frou { Dublin. hile these were unauthor | ized by Ae union executives, who fel that they could not distinguish be | tween goods "'tain ' by a railroa. { strike and thoge ted" by a striae - ¥ THE 'months go by substantial sum. - Where does your salary go ? and you find at the end of a hard working year, that you are no better off than you were at the beginning. Year after year it will be the same if vou don't take immediate steps to stop the outward flow of your earnings. i Cultivate the saving plan. Try opening a savings account in The Bank of Toronto. be surprising how little you will miss what you lay aside, and how quickly your savings, together with the interest they will earn, will accumulate to a . We invite your banking account THEBAN Kor TORONTO with dizzy rapidity It wall Lagain, { most - prosperous poultry disturbances | services during the | fo | where | | British [sles | supposed to speak | moresdifficult for { an | an English word misapplied. | derived from the Latin porrum. a | leek, and when Sir Hugh Evans al- | Tudes somewhat contemptuously to a | mess of porridge he means a cheap | sort of stew or soup which in Shake- { speare's day was flavored with that | vegetable. | that it came to sigaify the "chief o' | Scotia's food." | chooses, | Buckingham Palace garden party, he { was being teased by a charming | guest to say what he thought of the | Hert vy neverthe- able dislocation A PRINCELY FRACAS. Incidents of the Coronation. of the Last nk of i some ndefinable way, different from those af other people. more genuinely girl n ng actions King. George's ldren during the drive to the coro- on at Westminster Abbey by William Armstrong in the 's Home Companion? of t ng premoni- a it de~ ral enough to thi + children of royalty as, in Could anything he true to average boy however, the iture, than of nat As de- Ye was drawn t ed figures of the brother and hey w ace! the grounds of Marl- borough Ho Certain nudges and grimaces en d, which began to dis- tract the e of the two latter Soon, pn front there something ge on resembling old-fashioned free-for-all X Princess Mary, with all fhe authe of an older admonished her brothers, sharply remonstrated. Her words flew as chaff above those bob- d moving arms It any moment the little might tumble in an inglor- nt seat EOrgeéou older brother boyish and & ter with whom fo romp about stomex seat, was an sister as if forward, Princess I means, moral She shook her apart, cuffed them them upright again. lost her crown, it on again when the Wales picked it up of the carriage, where Then, the fracas settled, on in deco lovable a guin could i from 1 i's End." onés having failed small brothers slightly and set In the process but calmly put Prince of the floor had fallen they p i she from it Nat Gould. Known umerable Englan was pr and, 1 thought o many boo readers in name of Mr. Nat Gould unknown in Canada, who hear of him, nl one man writing so the English language as he wrote and creating no acquaint- ance outside of England seems astonishing, It is probably safe to say that no author in England or America ever wrote a longer list of "'best selling" novels, although, says the Manchester Guardian, 'no man-- nay, no woman--of our time massa- cred English with so perfeet a lack of self-consciousness." He commit- ted, continues the Guardian, every fault poasible to a writer, turned out formless sentences, and whole pages that would have driven A grammarian to distraction. Never- to the 1 produced | theless, he gained an immense pub-, lic; and this because he carefully re- garded the conventions. 'Im Nat Gould's books virtue always triumph- ed, vice met its vile deserts, and if people were made to talk as no peo. ple ever talked anywhere, they acted as their reader expected them to act" Mr. Gould seems to have been dne of those rare and unsung persons among authors who write, naturally and continuously, just the kind of stories that thousands. of their fel- low men and women ehjoy reading. Poultry Farm In London. On2 hundred feet above one of London's busiest streets, and within 200 yards of Big Ben on the roof of the Institute of Civil. Engineers, there 'is one of the best kept and farurs the metropolis. It comprises 36 hens, housed in three spacious coops, but during the greater part of the day the hens are allowed to roam about the roof at will. Although the cooping is not more than eighteen inches high the hens never attempt to reach the ground, contenting themselvés with Ing their satisfaction after an egg has been added to the record they have been making. English Dialects. Americans who are coming to the in great numbers sre the English lan- guage, says Tit-Bits, but ge some times find it a little difficuld to un- derstand them. But it must be much them to under stand the different dialects that are spoken in England. Lancashire fur- nishes a good example. What would American make of 'Tint ooan ee!" or ""Wheer ta baan?" or 'I'se | lippin on ¥0'!" three phrases that are commonly heard in that country. in! Translated in modern English, they mean, "Shut one eye!" "Where are you going?" "I shall depend upon | you," or "shall expect you." The Porridge Bombshell, Bitter complaints come from be- | yond the Tweed at the rise in the | price of oatmeal, says the London +. Chronicle. Y It is curious to reflect that por- | ridge, always chiefly, and for cen- : turies solely a Scottish dish, has not a Scottish name. Porridge is really It is It was somewhat later Princely Diplomacy. 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