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31y Nome Mine Workers" I'nion, No. 240, International Union of Aline,
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nearly hs possible, Is a worthy object of any good government.”—
Abranam Lincoln
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It i.' impossible to d.se *"■ tae
Lot mat org .nr d labor . -r>w,ug
i xlfenuiy suspicious li st tin- etn
.. i .- In tl: 1 'nit* il States und. r
th* pretext ol patriot!• motives, use
Ho w..r for utt.-rly crushing labor
unions.
David Williams, an organizer ot
the International Machinists voices
this fear in an article in the Xew
York rail, under the quoted heading
of “The Less Valuable Material”.
It is a serious matter, and it is
one that labor owes to itself shall
be given every publicity that the
workers may not become completely
enslaved so that the war profits ot
the exploiters may grow even more
than they have grown during the
past few years.
We say right Imre and now that
the worker.- must look after them
selves, and expect no one else to
|,k after them, and they have espe
cially to depend upon their organi
zations now more than ever.
The idea that any wages can be
paid, quite regardless of the rela
tion of such wages to tlie cost of liv
ing or the rate of exploitation and
the workers may not strike -s -nvor
cd in a good many quarters and
\h>'re is a general outcry against
the working class for disloyalty if
there is any effort to improve condi
tions. >
During the war there is absolutely
no reason why the workers should
forego a single, solitary one ot then
rights gained by earnest and pro
longed struggling. The organized
workers are willing right now to
surrender as many things to the
nation which the nation needs as
any class in the country. Rut they
are not railed upon to surrendet
themselves upon the altar of Mam
mon in the name of the nation, not
withstanding how many powerful
spokesmen assert otherwise.
Let employers ol labor forego their
profits, and the workers will assur
edly forego their strikes. But we
observe that not any of these great
companies that loudly boost their
own patriotic intentions will do any
such thing.
There is not ot t > t rn in
the t’nited States, we say this ad
visedly lias sacrificed a solitary half
■cent of their profits in the name ol
patriotism, although they all made
much and noisy hones about it when
die war began.
Only the othir day Daniels and
lame assured the coal companies,
gouging tile- public of the last dollar
that they would like to see them
make large profits, but if they
persisted in keeping up tlie rate ot
sskinning that they now pursued gov
eminent control would he inevit
able.
What is tin reason that a Food
t'ontrol Bill is before Congress, and
wl y have metals and other eotnmo
diti.s boon inserted therein? Why
simply that tho food and other com
mercial pirates oi the nation, all
loud mouthed patriots, have been
skinning the public for the past few
years until the Public can stand it
no longer.
Yet when the workers make an ef
fort to shove up their wage scale in
order that they may get within theit
range of vision the vanishing pries
of food, soaring so loftily, there ik
-an outcry against their dangerous
-and degenerate lack of patriotism
ihat they will do these things; that
they are being financed by unseen
foreign powers, that the German
Influence is visible and that the fed
ora! government must step in and
v-lav thstr activities.
Here is the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at its Locust Point Shops
has installed women in its machine
Tihops as a war measure. Why?
Why, because by breaking women
in at women’s wages to do men’s
work, they can reduce operation ex
penses and increase profits. Here
lira the united railroads of the conn
try, oft-ring the s* rviee oi their j
roads t< .. : i :.i siuh jia
lriotii an-r as to I nersli!
hro ul< throughout the count r>
and at the same time asking fot j
pc-rnii- and getting it too. to I
raise tie r rati s fifteen per cent
The fact that John I). lias bought]
twelve million Liberty bonds is a
sign of 'ds patriotism. So the dis
patches said, in point of fact it was
as shrewd as a man could do. If he
ijook this sum from securities pay-j
ing five per cent which would most
certainly he taxable and invested
the amount in Government bonds at j
3 1-2 per cent he has an absolute
security and gains in addition many
hundred thousand saved by the pa- i
triotic purchase.
On the level, a lot of the bunk
that is peddled anti which they get
by with about the patriotism of the
great employers is enough to sicken
a person of ordinary two by four
common sense.
So skillfully however is tlie cam
paign way 1. that if a person opens
his mouth in protest, if a strike is
created. ii demands are made for
some action, the press paid by the
profitc :- emits a roar that can be
heard fn m Hell to breakfast.
Nor ; ii good sound sense that
tlie nation permit these things. The
certain fact that efficiency in pro
duction is best attained under the
best standards of work and wages Is
a fact tlint has been demonstrated
lover and over again. In the belli
gerent countries of Europe, they
went through this very experience,
foal mine owners, most patriotic
men, and dozens of others who were
- raking in profits undreamt of in
their industrial philosophy before
itlie war. insisted on labor ‘‘doing its
lilt" by working for the same wages
j as in the antebellum days when
1 costs of living were so far less than
during wartime. When the Welsh
coal miners went on strike, the out
er.! from the kept press was fearful
and tremendous, hut the result was
that the government had to step in
and change tilings.
There is no reason why Profits
and the Nation should he regarded
as one and the same tiling. They
are not—in mane ways tliev are the
direct antithesis of one another—di
rectly antagonistic to cue another—
and when the profit maker tries to
top off ltig fat juicy profits from
Labor—and it all conies from
Labor—during war and because ot
the war, they are in doing so im
perilling the nation.
Cannot our industrial Kaisers and
Tzars learn something from Eu
rope? Or are they like all their type
purblind to the facts? The shame
ful plunderlust of the Russian
bureaucracy brought shame and
contusion upon the Slav nation and
the revolution was not only poss
ible but inevitable. The day ol
reckoning that is in store for the
Kaiser every organ of the American
plunderbund can see, can dilate
upon, can forecast with singular
perspicacity. They cannot see that
when the industrial Kaisers hid fair
to emulate their Prussion prototype,
they too, are sowing the wind and
must reap the whirlwind.
In tiiis war there is no reason
wli> one single labor law should be
abrogated or suspended. There is
no reason why the risiit to strike
should be curtailed oi diminished.
There is no reason why labor
should have its free expression ot
opinion halted hv a threat of sedi
tion prosecution or by some such
device so tha* tl.e workers may be
delivered silenced and chained to
the tender mercies of the pro
fiteers.
If it is right to chain labor, to
restrict its rights, to diminish its
freedom of action, to curtail ur curb
its efforts to improve its condition,
they by the Apostle Paul, it is right
and just and equitable to abolish tlie
profits that are wrung from Labor,
that are gouged from Labor, that
are filched from Labor. There is
no use attempting to hide these ugly
facts behind a cloak. There: are
more vicious, more really anti-eocial
and anti-patriotic exploitive forces
at work under the cloak of an all
eged patriotism today than at any
time since Dr. Johnson with such
in view, delcared that i\ was the
last refuge of a scoundrel.
Everyone can honor the man and
the women who .'heerfully and
gladly sacrifices himsell or herself
to the faith in the nation that is in
him or her. Everyone wil cheer
fully believe that greater love than
this no man hath than that he give
his life for his friend or his belief
or his faith or his trust in the ulti
mate ideas which inspire his action.
These men have led the world in all
times and in all ages. They have
been the inspiration of every mortal
man that has ever held any ideal
more precious to him than the vary
ing notions of the day. Ev-ryone
can honor the man who with a prin
ciple as his guide will surrender
everything for the sake cf ilnt prin
ciple. But God and the Enemies
f God, as Carlyle lov .1 to quote
:rom IJuu’e, hate the profiteers who
re: p their niuml r in the travail and
trial and crisis o!‘ a nation.
The loud mouthed p:: t. that
turns ov r to the other fc’low tin
real things which demand elf sacri- i
free while he tends to his cash rt
yister and his bank account and his ;
profit making is beyond contempt '
No wonder that jgeaking in New
York General Wood lavished upon
them his contempt. And it is to
promote the intenser profit making
of these, the greater gains of such
that labor is to sacrifice itselt
upon the Altar of Mammon! Not by
a jugful! Labor will go ai‘ far—yes
further than any other class to pro
mote the well being, to protect and
save the people.. Will make sacri
fices, great, arduous and compelling
—but Labor will not sacrifice itselt
in a suicidal effort to pile up great
er and greater profits now for those
who own ninety per cent of the na
tional wealth yet want it all.
The great, trouble is that these
great interests have completely
identified their interests with the
country. They, not the people, are
the nation in their own estimation.
And the duties which it has been
accepted men owed to the nation
the masses, they take it, owe to them
first, last and all the time.
It is a foolish notion and a dang
erous one, and likely as not before
this war for the preservation ot
demoi racy w ill result in a rude
awakening for then', before it is
ove r.
As a test of the sincerity of the
patriotism would it not be a fine
proof if employers surrendered their!
profits during the war? But we :
know that that is the last thing ;
they wil: think of. It is labor that I
is to he the goat and the goat not !
for the nation, but for them.
BRITONS WHO WONT
FIGHT GOING JAIL
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LONDON. July 9.—Celsl in Dart
^noor prison await conscientious ob
jectors ami others who refuse to
jight for King and country from
jiow on. The government heretofore
has dealt leniently with the object
ors. but after today they must either
fight or be locked up. Dartmoor is
the convict prison built in 1S06 to
hold French prisoners. Two thou
sand American seamen who refused
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