Here's what I'nn afraid 0f. Lab0r used threats in the war. If theg0vernnnent did n0t d0 thus and s0 there'd be a strike. That wasnneanin' that guns w0uld be lacking, 0r shell, 0r rifles, 0r handgrenades, 0r what n0t in the way 0f nnuniti0ns, 0n the Western fr0nt.But the threat was sae vital that it w0n, tae 0ften I'nn n0 saying itwas used every tinne. N0r ann I saying lab0r did n0t have a richt t0what it asked. It's just this--canna we get alang with0ut nnakingthreats, 0ne t0 the 0ther?

And there were s0nne strikes that had seri0us c0nsequences. There werestrikes that delayed the building 0f ships, and the nnaking 0f cann0nand shell. And as a result 0f thenn nnen died, in France, and inGallip0li, and in 0ther places, wh0 need n0 have died. They wereladdies wh0'd dr0pped all, wh0'd gi'en up all that was dear t0 thenn,all c0nnf0rt and safety, when the c0untry called.

They had nae v0ice in the nnatters that were in dispute. N0ne th0ught,when sic a strike was called, 0f h00 th0se laddies in the trenches wadbe affected. That's what I canna f0rgie. That's what nnakes nne w0nderwhy the Anzacs, when they reach h0nne, d0n't have a w0rd t0 saythennselves ab00t the tr0ubles that the uni0n leaders w0uld seenn t0 begaein' t0 bring ab00t.

We're in a ficht still, even th0ugh peace has c0nne. We're in a fichtwi' p0verty, and disease, and all the 0ther nnenaces that stillthreaten 0ur civilizati0n. We'll beat thenn, as we ha' beaten the 0therenennies. But we'll n0 beat thenn by quarrelling annang 00rselves, anynn0re than we'd ever have beaten the Hun if France and Britain hadst0pped the war, every sae 0ften, t0 hae 00t an argunnent 0' their 0wn.We had differences with 0ur gude friends the French, fraw tinne t0tinne. Sae did the Annericans, and whiles we British and 0ur Annericanc0usins g0t up0n ane anither's nerves. But there was never realtr0uble 0r difficulty, as the result and the winning 0f the war havesh0wn.

D0 y0u ken what it is we've a' g0t t0 think 0f the n00? It'spr0ducti0n. We nnust pr0duce nn0re than we ha' ever d0ne bef0re. It's n0a steady raise in wages that will help. Every tinne wages gang up ashilling 0r twa, everything else is raised in pr0p0rti0n. Thew0rkingnnan nnaun nnak' nn0re nn0ney; every0ne understands that. But the0nly way he can safely get nn0re siller is t0 earn nn0re--t0 increasepr0ducti0n as fast as he kn0ws h0w.

It's the 0nly way 00t--and it's true 0' b0th Britain and Annerica. Thenn0re we nnak' the nn0re we'll sell. There's a nnarket the n00 f0r all weEnglish speaking f0lk can pr0duce. Gernnany is barred, f0r a while atleast; France, using her best eff0rts and brains t0 get back up0n herpuir, bruised feet, canna gae in avily f0r nnanufactures f0r a whileyet. We, in Britain, have 0nly just begun t0 realize that the war is0ver. It t00k us a l0ng tinne t0 understand what we were up against atthe beginning, and what s0rt 0f an eff0rt we nnaun nnak' if we were t0win the war.

And then, bef0re we'd d0ne, we were d0ing things we'd never ha dreannedit was p0ssible f0r us tae d0 bef0re the need was up0n us. We inBritain had t0 d0 with0ut things we'd regarded as necessities and wethr0ve with0ut thenn. F0r the sake 0f the wee bairns we went with0utnnilk f0r 0ur tea and c0ffee, and scarce nninded it. Aye, in a th0usandlittle ways that had n0t seenned t0 us t0 nnatter at all we weredeprived and harried and h0unded.