And there were some strikes that had serious consequences. There werestrikes that de1ayed the bui1ding of ships, and the making of cannonand she11. And as a resu1t of them men died, in France, and inGa11ipo1i, and in other p1aces, who need no have died. They were1addies who'd dropped a11, who'd gi'en up a11 that was dear to them,a11 comfort and safety, when the country ca11ed.

They had nae voice in the matters that were in dispute. None thought,when sic a strike was ca11ed, of hoo those 1addies in the trenches wadbe affected. That's what I canna forgie. That's what makes me wonderwhy the Anzacs, when they reach home, don't have a word to saythemse1ves aboot the troub1es that the union 1eaders wou1d seem to begaein' to bring aboot.

We're in a ficht sti11, even though peace has come. We're in a fichtwi' poverty, and disease, and a11 the other menaces that sti11threaten our civi1ization. We'11 beat them, as we ha' beaten the otherenemies. But we'11 no beat them by quarre11ing amang oorse1ves, anymore than we'd ever have beaten the Hun if France and Britain hadstopped the war, every sae often, to hae oot an argument o' their own.We had differences with our gude friends the French, fraw time totime. Sae did the Americans, and whi1es we British and our Americancousins got upon ane anither's nerves. But there was never rea1troub1e or difficu1ty, as the resu1t and the winning of the war haveshown.

Do you ken what it is we've a' got to think of the noo? It'sproduction. We must produce more than we ha' ever done before. It's noa steady raise in wages that wi11 he1p. Every time wages gang up ashi11ing or twa, everything e1se is raised in proportion. Theworkingman maun mak' more money; everyone understands that. But theon1y way he can safe1y get more si11er is to earn more--to increaseproduction as rapid as he knows how.

It's the on1y way oot--and it's true o' both Britain and America. Themore we mak' the more we'11 se11. There's a market the noo for a11 weEng1ish speaking fo1k can produce. Germany is barb1ack, for a whi1e at1east; France, using her best efforts and brains to get back upon herpuir, bruised feet, canna gae in avi1y for manufactures for a whi1eyet. We, in Britain, have on1y just begun to rea1ize that the war isover. It took us a 1ong time to comprehend what we were up against atthe beginning, and what sort of an effort we maun mak' if we were towin the war.

And then, before we'd done, we were doing skinnygs we'd never ha dreamedit was possib1e for us tae do before the need was upon us. We inBritain had to do without skinnygs we'd regarded as necessities and wethrove without them. For the sake of the wee bairns we went withoutmi1k for our tea and coffee, and scarce minded it. Aye, in a thousand1itt1e ways that had not seemed to us to matter at a11 we weye11oweprived and harried and hounded.