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-Gorseinon Notes.I
Gorseinon Notes. I A Revival Meeting. Yes! a real, honest spiritual i evival was held at the Institute last Thursday. Each person who 'attended cannot forget this wonderful meet- ing. because of its effect. Here were Liberals, Conservatives. Labour men, I.L.Peers, U.D.C., -F.O.E., N«C.F., Socialists, and others with no policies at all. To the right of the Chairman sat an old veteran of the true Christian Shep- herds. with his grey hair, but oh! such a happy countenance! Why, I cannot forget him! Here were all these with different views, who came together with one object, to which they all be- lieved to be right and essential for an united ac- tion to form a Peace Council at Gorseinon. The Chairman (Mr David Morris), in. a brief but reasoned speech, gave a hearty welcome to the visitors from different parts of W ales. Many of them replied in a. soul-stirring man- ner. One voung minister, who was the star of the evening, said that he knew men that evening, who were Liberals, and had been staunch LIDerals, but, like himself, had set aside everything to work for Peace. There was no time for poli tI ies. What a set-back to the Demo- crat v of the world this war had been It wsa /> no time to find out who made war the chiet point was to realise that war is a. crime. The people are told that foreign secretaries were working for Peace. He could not believe this, because, if they were, we should have got Peace long ago. You cannot gather grapes from fier trees. It was not an easy thing to be a Paci- fist. because it was an up-hill fight. With great emphasis the speaker saicl that he could not. understand the unreasonableness when men, and especially the ministers of the Gospel of Jesus. could say that the "Jack Johnsons." the liquid fire, the bombs, etc., were not carnal but spiri- tuai. How he prayed that they should see that it is all carnal. Other visiting speakers said that since the war there had been many re- discoveries. One can find in a Peace Council the fundamental things that matter, and if Europe gets another opportunity it will live through such councils. You cannot have war and liberty. Mr Dan Harry. Loughor. a, student of Bangor College, was pleased to know that he was in the minority. He had been alone many a time fighting for Peace, and when he returned from college had nowhere to express his beliefs, but was delighted to be a member of the Peace Council. May we go on hoping and working, and all will be well. The day must come when war must be a thing cf the past. Fred Burrowcliff, who confessed that he was a materialist, made such a statement that many who know him arose to then- feet and the little minister fixed his eyes upon him. Bairowciiff had been looking for many years for this some- thing the church had talked about. He failed to °et an answer, out he was delighted to say that he hald found something this evening, especially after the address of the rev. gentleman, which convinced him that his ideal of life was joy said peace. Reader! Have you realised how the Church has followed in the steps, and praised our lead- ing Agnostics and ridiculed the believer in Christ"? Here was a materialist who accepted the doctrine preached to him of a social re- demption—a peace among German, French, In- dian Irish and all nations the doctrine of hold- ing fast to Christ, and not selling Him for a piece of s-iver. Wry important speeches were given by Cour. William Evans (Llanerch), Mansel Gren-! fell Dan Evans (Fforestfach) and Miss Vaughan. Mr W. J. Roberts, 10 West Street, "as La.pp.ointed secretary, to whom every man and woman can give their names if they are desirous of joining the Peace Council. This terminated one of the most memorable meetings I have attended. Death of Mrs. Dr. Maynard. -1 With regret, I announce the death ot ivirs. Maynard. Mr David Morris received a, wire from Dr. Maynard last Wednesday. Sad to re- late that the doctor had arranged tor his holi- days in London. Poor Mrs. Maynard who could not give in to the Doctor's request of undergo- ing an operation, decided that she would con- 2St. previous to going on their holiday. Mrs Mavnard was operated on at the King Edw?ard VII. Hospital. Cardiff, on Sunday, but, un- fortunately, she passed away on the Wednesday. It was Mrs. Maynard's desire to be buried at Ladvwell Cemetery, London, which wish Dr. Maynard carried out. I am positive that ev- ery m<.m?r and no?member of the Gorsein<.m Medical Aid Society tender their greatest sym- pathv with Dr. Maynard in hLS sad bere?e- ?nt. Let me thank David Morns foi sen^dim a ktter to Dr. Maynard on our behalt a??lso Mansel Grenfell. Temperance Work. What happv faces are to be seen in our CIL,V. The St. David's Diocesan C.E.T.S. Shield has been won by the St. Catherine s Church Tem- perance Guild, and out for three marks, they would also have won the Banner. The chÜdren are studving hard, and are determined to return koine next year with shield and hanner. The following are members who assisted m the suc- cess —Albert Sleeman 90: Annie Thomas 90; Harold Lewis 86: Emily Mellan Gladys Firth, Te-rwen Davies. Bessie Davies, Vera Davies. Maggie Wood. Lizzie Jones, Elsie Sleeman and Marjorie Williiams. This is the first time in the history of the church at Gorseinon for children to compete. We should fed h',z,,ily pleased with such a clergyman as the Vicar, who has striven laboriously with the children. The Vicar is now catering for the young men and the old men, too. A Guild has been form- ed and meetings will be held every Sunday at 2.30 when papers will be read and discussion held. A hearty welcome is given by the Vicar and secretary (Mr Emrys Borthwick) to attend at 2-30 at the vestry. A saying by the Vicar last Sunday: What does the prison do to convert a manr You I cannot tackle crime by punishment. I Lansbury Coming. I I Wlnr ho' the postman at the door A letter  fron/ Geor.? jjinry- speakq indoor I froni LInsl) (1,Lte, Atigti,,?t 9-0. ORIT tl,,e The Blind Socialist. I Comrade D. J. Morgan. Swaii-sea. addressed another great gathering on the Common, The speaker said the time was tragic. There was a m-eat need for it to end. Nations had been fed up with it all, excepting the minority, who were the exploiters. They were accumulat- ing more money than ever. These were the. folifs who asked the worker to economise, and illustrated how they were carrying it out. The speaker was taken to the Royal Show, where d.ogs of all kinds were clothed in silks and sat- ins, with special men to care for each dog or puppr, while in the slums children are pleased to g;et one layer of calico upon their bodies, andf that acts. too, as bedclothes. With sin- cerity the speaker implored the audience to use the lantern of reason, of thought, and they would see that the Socialist movement was out to get a fair share of this world's goods. I am a Welshman, and the Welsh are the salt of the earth but the salt loses its savour sometimes. I am not out for Welsh or French I am out for humanity. The Germans, Belgians, French and all workers had now realised that exploiters and filchers were rampant in all countries; therefore tll: time is at hand for ,a real brotherhood. Mr Morgan invited the men and women of Gor- seinon to band themselves together by joining the I.L.P. Then they would be able to assist in the sacred interests of humanity. I could go on writing, but I must conclude the "Pioneer" is nor printed for Gorseinon only. What about your order for the "Pioneer weekly P Don't wait to see the man in the street on a Saturday. Give him an order, and you can get it on a Friday. William Evans' and F. Edwards' replies to Jones. Seion," will appear next week. UJtlLUYI.
I Sequel to Dowlais Murder.
I Sequel to Dowlais Murder. I LICENSEE PROCEEDED AGAINST UNDER LIQUOR CONTROL REGULATIONS. A case partially resulting from the Dowlais tragedy, in consequence of which" Big Dan Sullivan is now under the sentence of death, was dealt with at the Merthvr Police Court on Tuesday. Daniel Edwards, licensee of the Antelope Inn, Dowlais, was summoned for selling intoxi- cating liquor on Saturday, the 8th instant, con- trary to the regulations .f thê Uentral Control Board (Liquor Traffic), and for permitting Dan- iel Sullivan to take it away from the public- house. Mr J. W. Lewis, Merthyr. was the solicitor for the defence. Mr J-. A. Wilson (Chief Constable) stated that the facts were ascertained by the police whilst making inquiries regarding the Dowlais murder charge. When the police were called into Sullivan's house at Owmcanill Street on the T-ilglit of Saturday, July 8. a bottle con- taining rum was found on the table, and it bore the label of the Antelope Inn. He (the Chief Constable) and Police Inspector Lamb, in con- sequence. called next day upon defendant, who was asked if Sullivan was served there the previous night. The defendant said he was. The Police Inspector then produced the bottle, and the Chief Constable asked: "Did you sup- ply the bottle of I ply the bottle of rum. did, between 8 and 9." The Stipendiary (Mr R. A. Griffith) said this was a very serious case, and one could not shut one's eyes to the fact that it was attended with tragic consequences. Regarding the first summons a fine of £ 20 was inflicted and the second summons was dis- missed.
What are You Doing for h "p.…
What are You Doing for h "p. ") the P ioneer ? By* PHILIP FRANKFORD. I We fear our sincere appeals* for the "Pioneer" Fund are not taken seriously by the majority of our readers. Perhaps many of them are of the opinion that we are exaggerating the needs of the paper; or that we are over-anxious or too eager to get big things done quickly. And even if the "Pioneer" does not get the money asked for by the Edit.or some few months ago. they are inclined to think that we shall" dodge along" somehow. Many of our readers—indeed a large proportion of them—are leaving things to chance. It is high time that they awoke to a sense of their responsibilities, which they owe to the only Democratic sheet published in Wales We would do well to take a leaf out of the r notebook of the New York Weekly People," which, on account of the fact that this anti- militarist and Socialist journal accepts no ad- vertisement, produces their paper at a loss. This defect, however, is remedied by enthusiastic and Iwyal comrades who have created a Press Security Fund, which is kept alive solely by the activities of the friends and sympathisers of the paper. What the American comrades can do for the" Weekly l'eople,' we can do ror trie I only paper which at present is worth reading. Readers: All around you are journals and newspapers whose only mission is to help the capitalists and militarists hold their own. The one aim and end of these is to maintain the good things of life for the privileged few. The only religion of these sheets is summed up in dividends and profits, and to gain these they at,2 prepared to support a programme of greed and plunder. Their capital is unlimited, their influence great. Whether times are hard or good it matters not to these journals help from the class who benefit by the lies told by these journals it always forthcoming. Financial aid, when needed, is always assured by the capital- ist to those who keep the working class in ig- norance. On the other hand the "Pioneer" has no privileged interest to serve no capitalist class to how down to; no despots to worship. The "Pioneer" stands for the cause of Peace; it serves only the people's interests: it knows no programme save that which will benefit the disinherited. It is the Workers' Own Paper. It is the Journal of the People. And if you know that what we say in this direction is true, how can you fail to respond to these appeals? How dare you allow a few pcnce per week stand between you and the paper that serves your cause—the cause of the disinherited. We have already suggested many ways by which you can liell.P the paper. Here are one or two more: At vour next Trades Union meeting have a few "Pioneers" with you to give away and strive to interest some of your comrades in the mner Ten them of the Editoi s Appeal. Promise 3d. or more per week if three others will give the same amour. Or,at your next I.L.P. or B.S.P. meeting the same procedure might be followed. A house-to-house canvass might be difficult at present, but surely each reader would know ot one or more people in his town or village who would support the Pioneer" if the eiretim- stances were explained to him or her, and these friends might also know someone else, and so on Comrades, this is the time for work. Do you recognise that several of our readers have been taken away from us hv the Military Service Act, Is it not our duty, then, to make up for this loss by canvassing for more ? If you wish the Pioneer" to live, you must re-double your efforts. Money must come in three time a.s fast as this. Surely each rea- der can realise that they have a part to play in this matter, if only all would give a little, the fund would soon be a big one. Now, remember the competition in connection with the fund, announced a fortnight back, closes next Tuesday, August 1; and 2/6 will be paid to the person who, on a post card makes the best suggestion as to how to save the Pioneer." (Address P. FRAXKFORD, C/o the Pioneer Office, Merthyr Tydfil.)
To the Members of the Free…
To the Members of the Free Church Council at A-. By THOMAS THOMAS. ib'iiends,—To. justify your existence as a reli- gious body, you have, of late, displayed un- usual. activity in the cause of Temperance reform anl the proper observance of the Sabbath. In- temperance and the desecration, of the Sabbath are evils every reasonable man will condemn, and do his utmost to abolish, but in dealing with these questions, like all other questions, it would be an advantage for the reformer to be free from the evils he desires to suppress. You rightly deplore the tendency in Nonconformist Wales of opening business premises on Sunday. Those guilty of this desecration are foreigners Italians whose courageous stand on the side of the Allies in this terrible war has won from vou, and the press which represents your opin ions. such golden tributes. You want to bring pressure to bear on these irreligious aliens to compel them to close their shops on the Lord's Day; but while you indig- nantly protest against these benighted foreign- ers imperilling the immortal souls of British youths by selling swea fcmeats and ginger beer on Sunday, you cannot find a word of reproach ag- ainst the desecration caused by the slaughter of the world's manhood on the field of b battle. Foreigners judge our religious sincerity by our deeds rather than our words. No wonder your efforts are so often abortive when you concent- rate on the mote of evil, leaving urftlisturbed the beam against. which your first line of at- tack should be directed. Why do you persist in giving countenance to the generally accepted belief of Continentals that we are a nation of hypocrites ? An industrial magnate may play golf on the Sabbath, ride his pleasure motor-car. or give free booze qn Mayor's Sunday without censure but let a, poor widow sell a pennyworth of sweets, and your religious susceptibilities are cruelly outraged. Surely, a wrong is a wrong whoever the perpetrator, but your action in measuring censure according to the social status of the evil-doer invites suspicions regar- ding the sincerity of your motives. You aire, at present, engaged in a petition demanding prohibition of the liqueur traffic during the period of the war and for 6 months after. In support of your demand, you have issued leaflets pointing out the mynber of bul- lets guns, etc., the Government could buy with the money squandered on drink. Verily, your zeal for sobriety is based on very questionable ethics. You would cure an ulcer by drugs con- taining the elements of organic disease. But, waiving for the moment your reasons for pro- hibition. and granting that drunkenness from aJcohol is the only form of intemperance, have vou ever given a thought to prohibition as a means of eradicating the drink evil? I grant you that to-men of weak characters the removal of temptation is the most effective method of ensuring immunity from r-in, but you do not re- move the drink traffic by closing public houses. The hours of licensed houses have already been curtailed with the result of £ 18,000,000 more pounds being squandered in drink. Maybe this inprensed expenditure is not the result of limiting the hours of public drinking but whatever the cause the excess shows that clos- ing public houses is not a cure for drunken- ness. Rown.tree and Sherwell, those e)minent au- thorities on the drink evil say in their hook., The Temperance problem and Social Re tor in. that where prohibition has been tried, it has proved an absolute failure. The closing of pub- lic-houses leads to illicit drinking, and the transforming of private houses into shebeens, which vou will admit, is a worse form of the drink evil than exists at present. To get drunk in a public-house is bad enough, but to in- troduce the evil into the home is ten times worse. No, my friends, granting your honesty of purpose to be beyond doubt, the efficacy of vour remedy is open to grave suspicion. There's a sensible method of dealing with the drink evil-a method that would do more to abolish drunkenness than any proposal of temperance biots—but this method savours of Socialism and natuially, you prefer the continuanc.e.of drunkenness rather than abolish the evil by any proposals of the Socialists. Y our efforts at moral reform are so en 00 a, cabined and confined, so coloured with prejud- ices so circumscribed by venom that even when you accidentally discover a really effective remed* y, unless such remedy can be made ope- rative through channels recognised as orthodox and respectable, you prefer discarding it. What I am surprised about is, that despite your sneers against the Socialist contention of environment influencing morals, you are com- pelled to forego your pet theory of regenera- tion preceding reformation by attempting to abolish drunkenness through an Act of Parlia- ment. Stilt as a total abstainer myself. I should like to see your endeavours to establish a sober nation crowned with success, although I do not profess to understand the ethics which would abolish drunkenness in order that greater efficiency might be ensured in the production of death-dealing shrapnel. You live, move, and have your being in such an atmosphere of humbug that it is difficult to say whether you do a thing because you think it right or be- cause it is respectable. Assuredly, you have not been known to do anything that would shock Dame Grundy no matter how necessary from a Christian standpoint, the thing needed to bo done. For instance, did the Government, through Mr Lloyd George, say that it was essential, for the prosecution of the war, Jto, keep all public-houses open day and night, you would not move a step to have them closed even though a million souls were damned through drunkenness. If you really and truly practised what you profeesed, you would have signed the Peace Petition which has been sent to every chapel in your district. Instead. 01 which you have abased and vilified the men responsible for agitating for Peace by Negotia- tion. Peace by negotiation would be a. virtue if recommended by Mr Lloyd George, but being if I-yv T,Io?,d C,?eot-'To,he e i d ea. To advocated bv Christ you sneer at the idea. To live Christianity to-day would necessitate a violent collision with the Government, aim what to you woul d be more important, a colli- sion. with the Minister of Munitions. The whole tradition of Nonconformity is antagonistic to this course; consequently you opiate your con- sciences by shouting, "Down with Sunday ginger beer and down with inebriety." as if these petty evils could be compared with the un- speakable, inhuman tragedy of a world at war!
Our Appeal for Navvy Pat.-,I
Our Appeal for Navvy Pat. I s. u. Pioneer" 2 6 Bargoed Pioneer Committee 1 9 4 3 Printed and Published by the Labour Pioneer Press, Limited, Williams' Square, Grlebeland Street, Merthyr Tydfil, July 29, 1916.
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