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Show STRIKERS LIABLE FOR MILITARY DUTY Lloyd George Gives Munitions Muni-tions Workers Until Monday Mon-day to Go to Work. LONDON, July 26. Premier Lloyd George tonight announced in behalf of the government that all men who are wilfully absent from work after Monday next will be deemed to have voluntarily placed themselves outside the munitions industries. Protection certificates will cease to have effect and the men will become liable to the provisions of the military service act, the premier added. The statement pointed out that certain workers had quit their jobs in disregard of their leaders and remained idle against the advice of the union advisory committee. com-mittee. "They have ceased work," the, statement state-ment said, "not in pursuance of a trade dispute, but in an endeavor to force the government to change a national policy essential to the prosecution of the war. "While millions of their fellow countrymen country-men hourly are facing danger and death for their country, the men on strike have been granted exemptions from these perils only because their services are considered con-sidered of more value to the state in the workshops than in the army." The embargo" which the munitions strikers demand shall be removed "restricts "re-stricts the engagement of additional labor at firms already having as large a proportion pro-portion as their munition work warrants, having regard to the present labor shortage." short-age." The idt?a of the authorities is to maintain main-tain the supply of munitions for the troops and to insure the proper distribution distribu-tion of labor. |