Llanelly Star

I TRADE UNION JVJEHGE* I An announcement closely affecting two j important trade unions with many mlelu- j bers in Llanelly has just been. made. The j "Star" is officially informed that a scheme of amalgamation ha s been adop- J ted by theDockers Union and the .Ga.s- .workers' Union. The result of this merge will be the formation of a powerful new joint union with a- membership of close upon half a million. The complete scheme, it is hoped, will be in the hands of the melllbcrs for /.heir finaJ vote in the course of .a. few weeks. In *riew • of the increasingly important place which trade unions will occupy.:o. f ter the '.war, t3ais j amalgamation of foi-.f-es is highly signi- ficant. As Mr. Will Thorne puts it, step now taken is a ..hopeful sir.n of the -times andieifords striking evidence of the .solidarity of Labour- Both unions have .done good work in thi past, and it can- .ixot be doubled that under the new .auspices, the J.oint organization will play a big part in the work 4 of re-conatruction which awaits w. when f-eaoe dawjjs. upon | .our distracted vworld again. The k Dockers rniQnhaSi been ably led by Mr. :Ben Tillett, }1.£" while the Guswerkers have had the benefit of the sage guidance of 1}1r. Will Thorue, M-.E. Both leaders .have played a line patriot, part in these ;anxious days, will pot forget it. THE LATE MR.?YMOU:n. I THE LATE MR.. The death of Mr. Thomas Seymour sooves from the district a fine person- ality. A man ef commanding presence our late friend rendered yeoman service in many capacities, and all that he did t b e j-il l i-nar l;: o.f was starsped with .tho h[ill mark of honesty and sincerity. To Llanelly ites he became well-known as the chairman for over twenty years of the Board of Guardians. It would lw' impossible to speak in too appreciative terms of his devotion to the wor k of tins bodj and of the Rural .(Council. lie was TY n ideal Chairman, lending a dignity and an im- partiality to the deliberations of these j authorities which marked ibim opjt as a I born public administrator. But in the | Pontyberem district he was more than this. The colliers found in .him a true friend, always anxious to promote "their J highest intere-ist-s in every way- One of j the pas.sions of hi# life was cricket. Him- self an accomplished batsman, he was the means of establishing at Pontybefem a first-class eleven which for years hel4 premier po.sitkyn in West V. A man of the highest integrity, so well ,clualified to serve his day and generation, he will he he-Id in affectionate rcmem- brance for many years fo come. WORKERS AFTER THE WAR. I The position of workers after the war j is receiving no little attention just cow. j This is as it should be. The war has wrought many changes in this and other I countries, not the least important of I' which promises -to be the inauguration of a new era of improved relations between Capital ;1tnd Labour. The old attitude of distrust and suspicion, we may hope, has disappeared for ever, its place to be taken bv a new spirit of co-operaticn and conciliation which will exercise a pro- found influence upon the future of British trade and commerce. As evidence of tra d e -,tn this far-reaching change, we would com- mend to ol,,r, the recent speech of Mr Huth Jackson at the meeting of ?e Alliance of Employers and Employed. In formulating a bold programme, Mr. ■ Jr.ckson fr.^hlv reco^ni.red tnt, high wages had come to stay. "labour is en- titled to them." he ^i'L "nrnd not only to higher wages but to better conditions generally. There must be shorter hours. bolter bous'r'.t:r und better edncRtimt. The workers must be encouraged to take a keen interest in the success and efficiency ttf the wwkt, t-4 W»ur mnet be pre. pared tc-give, a full day's work, for a full .day' s wage, and to assist the manage- ment in.r-,v(,,ry possible, way to secure, the largest output at the lowest possible price." -If employers.and workmen come together in this spirit all will be well. I THE NEED OF SAVING. I It was a thoroughly satisfactory re- P' ort that Mr. Glynne Jones had to pre- .sent to the War Savings Committee on Friday. During the jnonth of October, War Savings Certificates to the value of £ 4,280 16s. 7d. have been jiurchased locally. Since the issue of National War ..Ponds abeut six weeks .ago, the. sum of 1:39,610 has been subscribed in L1:mclly district. This means that practically during the last month or so, the total investmente in war securities were £68,890 163. 7d. These are indeed very gratifying figures which should eiy. our- nge the local committee in their pre- paa ations. fw a great autumn campaign. We would etmphasize the appeal made by My: Jones f-sr a further exercise of thrift by ;all classef, of the community. TIME is a Blatter in which every man, woman -and child should realize the supreme impcrt- ance of doing his or her -part. The Government ",is nDW millions a' year; in normal times the "ex- penditure was* 200 millions. This means I a ww expeiicR'iure of « year. If we ded uct 500 nailions spent, abroad, this intins that the "Irovernmem to-day is in the market buying labour and -niater"lals,-uo the extent of 1,30(5 millions a year. To the extent that we spend iaonev unnecessarily ire are ham- pering the Government, hampering the .carrying on of the war, raising the cost of living, and making the war more ex- pensive. This gospel of wTar savings will have to "be preached and practised for many a 'day to come—even if 'the war I finished to-morrow. Bl/RRY PORT ROjPDS. 1 The problem of the. roads seems .to have conie to stay at Byjry Fort—a .cheerful prospect for the ratepayers, to be sure.! Each iialf-year, when the estimates ,for the r;.Lte are considered, that portion of the expenditure relating to the highways bulks largely in the discussion. The worst in it is .that there seems to .be no iiope of finality in the outlay. As soon as the roads jxre put in anything like decent order, along come the 'busses and other he?vy motor vehic?s and tear them up again. Already over a thousand pounds have been spent on the road be- tween Plasnewydd and the Ashburnham Bridge., .without any permanent good rejsuJis. The fact is, of course, that these roads wexeaever.irtended -to carry heavy traffic of this description. When they v/crc £ rst made. no foundation was pro- vided, all that underlay the upper crust of macadam being saud. It was reported recently by the Surveyor that it would be necessary to spend ten thousand pounds- to provide roads that would be at all comparable to the county road between Llanelly and Burry Port. No one, in his senses would expect the Burry Pwt rate- payers to incur this outlay. As we have said before, the only way to deal once aDd for all with our roads is to national- ize them. They should be taken over by the Roads Board and maintained out of national funds. This would relieve the local ratepayers of an intolerable burden and be fair and equitable all round. Better Houses. J In view of the application by the Cor- I poration for sanction to the building of 500 houses in Llanelly, it is not without interest to note that tho Government programme provides for 300,000 new houses in. England and Wales in the first year after the war. Row this new ac- commodation will be allocated it is as yet too soon to say, but it. may be taken for granted that the more urgent claims of i industrial districts will receive first at- I tention In Llanelly and Burry Port for instance, owing to works and factories j developments there is a veritable house famine. It is hopeless to expect private enterprise to provide what is necessary, I and this is what the Ministry of Muni-' I tions recognize in their decision to af- ford financial support to the housing tjchame now being carried out at the | latter place. As to the class of dwellings 1 to be built, the National Housing Council point out that as higher rents &s?e likely to prevail, the new houses should be made attractive, so as to be well worth the extra rent charged. They recommend that each house should have three bed- rooms and be equipped with a bath-room and hot water. PROFITEERING. I The Bench have made it clear that, they intend coming down heavily upon the profiteer..The local case heard on Mon- day will serve, it is to he hoped, as a salutary warning to tradesmen who seek to make unfair profits in theso- .days of stress and anxiety. Seeing that the Food Control Committee publish sched- ules of maximum prices there is no ex- cuse for such practices as were disclosed at the Police Court this week.At the same time, the, Committee will have to he careful to .so fix their prices as to allow a ii. iiiargn of profit to the retailer. Even the tradesman has to live, and no one grudges him a reasonable profit on his turnover. The danger is fliat if priesjs are fixed too low, supplies, will he diverted to other towns where higher prices prevail. 'Already we hear reports cf q-nautitics of' Tbuttcr diverted 'from Llanelly to Swansea fof this reason. We eomrr^uc! this. to the careful attention of the committee. SUCAB CARD CHANCES. I The grave warnings which were ulterea 011 Tuesday by the Prime Minister and the Food Controller Jiave led to a very necessary revival of iiiiblic interest iii the food .question. It is understood that I I t li-,it 4-e the Government anticipate that We country will enter upon a period of .serious difficulty next spring, probably in April. If a general system of com- pulsory rationing is then put int-o force., the Government will have the experience of their sugar scheme, which begins on cA t their si?g January 1st, to guide tsbem. The sugar rationing scheme is- already undergoing modifications. The system of rationing by household .cards, with which the first experiment has been made, will probably he gradually replaced by individual cards obtainable froBi the Post Office. The existing household cards will, of course, stance hut, whcji a householder finds it necessary to ask for a new card, owing to chaEges in the domestic circle, he will be rationed on the system of individual cards: The Sugar Commission have no doubt of their ability at the beginning to supply the fall ration of half pound a head. The public, .however, should under- stand that this may be altered at any d-a-te and that a reduction to three- eighths of a pound in the spring ;is quite possible. At themowent the slacks of sugar in the country are twice as large as they were a few uwmths back, ibut it may not be possible to maintain Mich a margin as the months g<v by and thi loss (if tonnage goes on. t

BOROUGH OF LLANELLY. MILK PRICITU, S ORDER, I 1917. In pursuance of the above Order, the Borough of Llanelly Food Control Com- mittee have resolved that after TUESDAY, the 20th NOVEMBER, 1917, and until further notice, THE MAXIMUM PRICE To be charged for MILK Sold by retail in the Borough, shall be at the following rate :— 2/4 per Gallon. 7d. per Quart. 3id. per Pint. Hd. per Half-Pint. Dated this 19th day of October, 1917. By Order, HENRY W. SPOWART, Executive Officer. Food Control Office, Stepney Hail, Vaugbm St" Llanelly. .=- 7ni r.

1 An English woman married to a Ger- man has been fined a nominal sum at Bath for infringing the Aliens Order. She j had applied for rcadmission to her -:(1 nat-io.ialltx, and declared that she WQ11!d rnther die than sign her name as a Ger- man.

In the Battle Line. I THE MENACE. FROM THE AIR. I [By Sapper Llew Bassett, Llanelly.] I The Night" Raiders. -I 1. I Hign, high in the sky the Gothas tly, In moonlight or starlight night, Hov'ring above searching for prey Dropping bombs and taking to flight. The dangers of the war increase every day, as the hand of science improves and perfects the modern engines of destruc- tion that are brought into use in this orgic of mechanical butchery. The aero- plane has reached such a. pitch of perfec- tion that it has become a terror to sol- diers in the line and out of the line, as well as to innocent people who take no part in the conflict. Such a menace, indeed, has it developed into that it is obvious that these air machines will go a long way to hasten the end of the war. Out here in France we are fully aware of the increasing danger; wc face it as we face every other fortune of war, calmly and with a gc-od heart. The dangers of home. I Unfortunately innocent women and I children, and other non-combatants suf- fer from the deadly bombs the Gothas drop. We oat here quite realize what a scare the Goths create when they are over the affected areas that are within their reach in England. We quite under- stand what terror they strike in the hearts of our women and children, and how .heavy is the toll which they exact. One can hardly realize what anxiety of mind a soldier in France is in when he knows that his wife and children are I living in one of the affected areas. What heart does it give him to fight for free- I dcunwben he knows that his dear ones are in clanger at home. Out here he is risking life and limb, i-tia-, be wrecking his health for the future. All the dangers he has ,to face in battle—the death-deal- ing shells, machine gun bullets, and the deadly bombs do not worry him much. He meets all these clangers bravely. What concerns him mostly is the know- ledge that his wife and children are in danger at home. A soldier told me one day "It i& heartbreaking for me to fight out here when I know that my Missus and kiddies are living where the Goths drop their bombs." I could only sym- pathise, with him, and I could'' see from the expression on his face the. painful anxiety he Was in. Then they talk of I no reprisals. Let the Pacifists and the kid glovc fighters lin in the bomb drop- ing areas, or let them come out here and find what kulture ihe Hun is made 'of. Yes, let us have reprisals. The Hun is a coward, playing him at his own game. A ''tooth for a tooth," "An eye for an eye," is what the Great Book says. If the Hun kills our women and children at. it is fair that we should deal death and destruction in Germany. Yes, carry on with the reprisals, thick and heavy. Let us send thousands of our planes over to Hun-land. So much for the Goths at home. I will try and give you an idea what the Goths- arc doing in this port of' Flanders. "The Coths by day are kept at bay." When the Goths are hovering in the air by day, there is not much danger, they fly very high, quite a contrast to the low altitudes our airmen fly. How- ever high the Goths are, our "Archies" spot them, peppering the sky with their anti-aircraft shells, chasing them back over the German lines, and as is often the case with our jirmen on the trail after the Goths. Seme of the Hun pilots who break through the air barrage from our "Archies," come well down our lines and communications, searching for their prey, such as dumps, heavy guns, rail- heads, billets, and other targets for their night excursions in the air. It is by night that the Goths are a terror out here. Although we have an abundance of shells and piiti-.tirer.,ift guns behind our lines, it is difficult to discern the Goths at possible to stop some of them coming over to drop their shower of bombs. We can only see what damage is done by the Goths on our side, but by the numbers of our planes that go over the German i linps on the same mission, it is far worse for Prib. on his side, and I may say that [ our airmen are far.more daring than the German airmen. Our day's task. I was one of a party that paraded one morning for work up the line. We were awakened to time, after a very unea,sy night with the (zoths. Outside, the early morning was as black as ink. The atmos- phere had a peckish sniff of winter. We moved away sliding and slipping in the slush and mud, until we were on the road leading to the battle-front. The road was covered with a coating of liquid mud. Our boots were soddened, and we soon had wet socks to add to our discom- forts. As we plcdded away, a motor lorry would pass us splashing the liquid slime over our only "suit." The further we went nearer the dancer zotia we got. A shell from a long gun would burst near, making us move along faster. The day was breaking now, and with the dawn our guns opened out for the "stand to" in the line. A short bombardment then showed the Hans we had plenty of am- munition. The Huns replied to our guns just to show that they also had some spare ammunition. On we went under the sound of cur guns, with German shells bursting in' the near distance. The sun was rising over a shell ridden woods away in the East, sunk in a crimson sky. It looked beautifullv if there is such a thing as beauty in War. The Germans had put a barrage further o-, and we fcrd p-z L- ,J.L;'b.a.l 1: to pass through it, on our way to the w u'k. All the party passed through it safely. Now we were in the wilderness of desolation behind the front line. An- other barrage was put on here, and we passed through this again saieiy. At last we reached our task. All went well, and the work was completed. So hack to our billets we went on the "Long trail" again. Some more barrages had to be passed through on the way home. We reached our billets fortunately with- out any casualties. We had returned safelv from the ordeal of the line; now we were to expect Fritz over horn hing when night came. One chap remarked: This is a rum place. We are straffed going up the line, shelled while working, and sniped at on the wav home, and after we are back in billets safety. Fritz comes over and bombs us at night." (To be continued).

Record Office for Wales. BOROUGH IEIEh ASD WELSH RECORDS. Welsh M.IVs on^ifed»csday ,^ait«d on ir Alfred Mond, M.P. (H.M.'s First Commissioner of orks) to ask icr a Record Office for Wales. Sir Herbert Roberts* (chairman of the Welsh Party) introduced the deputation, and Mr. W. Llewelyn Williams said that a large num- ber of records belonging to various Government departments had accumu- lated during the war. The Department was overwhelmed with documents which they dare nnt destroy. There was no room to keep them in bioner order, and -in the course of the next few months have to provide no less than 15 miles of shelves in which to store war records. The Record Office in Chaneerv-lane was ralicvnously in_ee- quate. This was a good opportunity for pressing the claims of IVales for a Record I Office in Wales for the custody of Welsh records. The claim had been recognized I by the Royal Commission, and the Welsh j records had only been ?-o?t to London I in 1854 for safe custody. To do as asked would but place Wales in the same posi- tion as regards a Record Office as Ireland and Scotland. Sir Alfred Mond was very sympathetic and promised to do what he could.

UyU^jcmiPD^WBEOTTIIlf MFffl *fl*8TT ONE WORD wrTH: 100. Mrs. King, Runwell Road, Wickford, states:—"Duty compells me to tell all who suffer that your pills cured me after years of pain." Sir. A. Newton, of Fekasm, writes:—"Y onr pills have completely rured me after four months on mv back." Mr. Jamea Swift, At- terclilie, Sheffield, says:—"The first; doee gave me great relief. I can con- I fidently say that one box of these pills has dorte me more good than all the Biedioine I have taken." HOLD- ROY D'S GRAVEL PILLS,, a poati-v. cure for Gravel, Pains in the Back, Dropsy.. Bright's Disease of the Kid- n'y, (?nt, Sciatica. .3d. of an C?m?M. Post free 14 ttamps.— HOLDROYD'S MEDICAL HALL. i Cleckheaton, York*.

j' Small Army at House.' J APPELLANT AND HIS TEN APPELLANT AND HIS TEN | CHILDREN. CEILDRE?N. ) "You have a small Army at home, -,iaver, z you asked the Mayor at the Tribunal on Thursday, when an employee I of Messrs. Buckleys Brewery, named Thomas Williams, said he could not join the Volunteer Battalion. I Williams: Yes, I have ten children (laughter). Sir. Leslie Williams, who represented the firm, said the man had to look after the repairs to the brewery and 3.50 houses fr. Jennings: Still Slessrs. Buckley are a patriotic firm, and they would spare him a few hours to enable him to drill in the V.B. I -Air. Williams: But people want beer (laughter). Williams (to Sir. Jennings): The firm are much stricter since you were there. The Mayor: Why, has Sir. Jennings I been at the brewery ? (laughter). Exemption was allowed.

I > J Between April 1st and October 31st. this year, tons of waste paper were collected by Hammersmith Borough Council from houses and shops, and the sa le has realized £ 602, leaving a net sur-

i Pwii Notes. do ———. j The last day for receiving the verses to the Pwil "Dummy," is fixed for T«es- j day next, Nov. 27th. Pte. D. Harries, son of Sir. David Harries, Rhyw-dro, Pwil, has been seriously wounded and now lies in Leicester Hospital. We wish him a eotn- plete and speedy recovery, Ir. Richard Sloss, Pwil, has received news of his son, Pte. Joseph SIoss' i»r- row escape. A shell burst near him. acid | tore his knap-sack off his back and soat- tefed its contents. Luckily he was not hurt. He is one of three brothers serving their country. | A trap set to catch a most annoying J rat, lias caught a favourite kitten in- stead, and there is now another sic. The Pdl Slale Voice Party is to-night at the Athenaeum Hall. Sir. Rhys Rees has successfully passed j his exam, as works examiner. |

¡ In a case at Rochester Police Court it I was stated by a man earning more than L2 a week that his wife and children were in the workhouse he cause he could not get a house.

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