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The Canadians are patriots and
view questions which come before
them in a. nationalistic light. When
thi y say they are fighting the war
for democracy they believe it and
they mean it. So when this draft
law is proposeil Canadian labor
dois not oppose it. Canadian labor
is lar too patriotic to do any such
thing Canadian labor welcomes the
draft and does not intend to offer
any resistance to it. The idea of
fomenting agitation against it
would be abhorrently unpatriotic.
On tlie contrary they will aid it in
every way and to strenghten the
government they propose to make it
thorough. They propose that there
shall be no escape and no making
fish of one and flesh of another.
They say that the draft must be gen
eral including labor, man power,
also must it include wealth aiul
money. And they propose to see
it. through. Isn't it a war for de
mocracy and world liberty, they ask
and wherefore should the govern
ment stop at man power. But they
know that governments are weak:
that the influences of the monied
power are manifested in every
avenue of governmental activity;
that it is enormous the force that in
dustrial interests can exert. So
though the spirit of government
may be willing, government action
is weak to enforce needed policies
and Labor, organized labor proposes
to supplement governmental action
with industrial action. It is pro
posed that the day the draft is en
foreed that the workers refuse point
blank to labor for private profiteers
a day longer and they cease work
in private plants until those plants
are taken over by the nation for the
nation and become plants of the na
tion. They propose that the leeches
of industry that have been shoving
up the profit mark until it reaches
undreamt of records shall receive
their quitetus and that the machine
ry, the tools of production and dis
tribution of supplies, necessaries of
all kinds, clothing, food, fuel, muni
tions, metals—all of these become
nationalized in tic in r i of all
the people so that the war may be
forced to final victory.
They say that during the war,
therefore, just as soon as the draft
is passed, also will labor enforce a
draft of its own: the conscription
of property, wealth, money. As
one labor paper puts it "To tlie
thoughtful reader it will certainly he
,dear that if the wdiole power of the
the nation is to be centered upon
winning the war. then it logically
follows that no part of the nation’s
power rail be turned to the purpose
of fattening the wallets of profit
hungry souls whose mission in life
is not the winning of wars but the
getting of something for nothing.”
Surely logic unanswerable is that
* onclusion. What answer may he
given the question as to tlie utility
of men making millions from a na
tion's need? Piling up dividend after
dividend from the nation’s need of
food, of copper, of iron and steel,
of explosives, of clothing, of leather,
of wood, of ships, ol machinery?
Has not, asks Canadian Labor, with
patriotic voice, the nation not as
much need of these things as of the
lives of men—and if you draft the
lives of men, rightly we may not
gainsay that, why then should not
ihe property of men be also drafted?
Indeed, yes, this an unanswerable
question unlet-s one admits that
there is no reason whatever why
property should not lie conscripted.
?ilr. Watters of the Canadian Fede
ration of Labor of which he is Sec
retary in a noble and patriotic man
ner thus explains the situation:
‘The premier has pledged that
the whole power of the nation shall
be concentrated on the task of win
ning the war. The whole power of
I he nation .s not limited to man
power, which in itself is useless. ini*
to tlie material wealth as well. I am
strongly of the opinion then that
the greatest and most patriotic ser
vile we can render to our country,
our motherland and our allies in
the struggle to preserve our liber
ties and our democrat ies is. on the
day conscription of man power is
put into effect, we supplement the
pledge of the premier, b; forcing
the government conscript wealth
throughout the Dominion refusing
to work for the gain of the private
proliteer and offe.'ing lus service to
the nation and the nation alone. In
other words not a wheel should turn
except lor the nation in its hour of
need. Not a tn'ne railway, mill
nor factory necessary to lie operated
for the successful prosecution of tilt
war. would he op.'iated for Die pro
fit of lhe owners of such, but solely,
in conjunction with man power, for
military purposes, to piotect the na
tion".
Commenting upon this. Hi" British
Columbia Federation says “To
whatever extent the substance ct
the nation is sapped by the profit
sucking proclivities of useless scions
of the House of Fat, to that extent
is tlie nation's energy subverted
trom the purpose in hand, that of
winning the war".
The position taken is truly un
answerable. If the draft of man
power is good, because man power
is needed for the war. tlieretore also
is wealth power draft essential and
good because no less needed
to carry on the war suc
cessfully. In t his way victory
loans become useless and unneeded
things; the nation in this fashion
co-operates to the end of victory it
self and the people realize a perfect
equality of sacrifice which becomes
worth while.
The Canadians realize keenly how
truly President Wilson spoke when
he declared that this was a war to
make the world safe for democracy.
Being such democracy can take no
chances. It must go the limit. It
| cannot hug back a hoard or add to
its pile hv a stealthy process ot war
! profit extraction in Canada. Labor
says it’s willing, hut it is not willing
to sacrifice itself for the private pro
fiteer. He must go. His niacninery
his railway, his land, Ills mine, his
mill, his earth must be sacrificed as
is the worker's life in Canada to
be sacrificed to make tlie world safe
for democracy. The Canadian does
not intend to fight to make the
world a better place for the profit ex
tractors from labor. Labor in Can
ada intends that it is democracy
s-hall benefit from the war imme
diately as well in the remoter epochs
following its conclusion.
They have cast their eyes, in Can
ada, over the long list of dividend
producing war contractors, they
have noted th° way profits have been
mounting high and ever higher,
they have observed, in Canada, that
wages have not even attempted to
keep in sight of the higher costs of
living, and they have remarked that
while there are numbers sunk in
the depths of irredeemable poverty,
there are other Canadians, prolific
in tongue patriotism, who are re
velling in millions they have never
dreamed it possible they could pos
sess. They note, in C'aanda, that for
some of these interests the war has
been a blessing; it has stimulated
trade beyond all expectations. They
note that the government spent its
last cent in the treasury and had to
pay for the goods which their labor
had produced and of which labor
got hardly the smell of a cent. And
they propose, that now when to
win the war the Premier says that
conscription is needed, the workers
in Canada say that they agree, con
scription of everything: material
wealth as well as human life. They
say the profiteers have wrung about
all the profit they are going to
wring out of the body politic and
that from now on, when the draft
is enforced the war profits must
cease, private operations for private
benefit by private owners must cease
Governmental operation for the Do
minion must begin. And they will
see that it does begin. That it will
begin if they have to shut down
every private concern to compel the
government to take it over.
Beyond any puestion there is hard
common sense in tihs Canadian po
licy. Why should the government
pay five cents for the carrying on
of this war? The war is for the na
tion, not for the owners. Is it not
to make the world safe for democ
racy? Why not then take and hold
the mines, the mills, the smelters
the railroads, the ships, the banks,
the factories, the furnaces, the mu
nitions and explosives plants, in
stead of allowing private individuals
to milk the treasury until it is dry,
to wring every drop of labor and
every drop of wealth from the Do
minion, in order to fatten up their
profits? Why should the iron and
steel magnates and the rest he al
lowed to continue to make money
out of the war when this is a war
for democracy and human liberty?
So it is that way the Canadian
problem presents itself to Canadian
Labor. It is somewhat different to
the attitude of Sam Gompers and
his clique in this country, but who
may deny that the Canadian labor
ltcs are quite loguai and quite pa
triotic in their attitude from a
fundamental point of view? The
only question is can they carrv out
their plan—can they force the gov
ernment to spurn aside the powers
that be in Ottawa and admit the lo
gical force of the arguments of the
laborites. Naturally that will depend
upon the strength of the laborites
themselves. Unquestionably the
justice of their cause itself is a
source of strength, but without a
sufficiency of organization it may be
hardly strong enough.
The blood sucking forces wihch
have fattened upon the nation’s
need and when the nation was pro
strate in its effort to force forward
the war for democracy are them
selves some patriots. They can wear
union jacks and make speches some
themselves: they can point with
pride to their i atriotic work and
view with alarm the other fellow’s
disloyalty. They can clamber up
platforms and take the front seat
-» —
with a boiled shirt heaving while
the flag waving proceeds and they
can stand stiff and erect and pious
when they play the national anthem.
They have their greedy hands
well concealed and though they have
them deep in the national treasury,
it is felt that the people of the
Dominion will not observe it. But
the people of the Dominion have
been three years at war making the
world safe for democracy and they
find that after the best of the youth
and the flower of the population
gallantly sacrificed their lives on the
bloody fields of France, the only
ones that have profitted by the war
have been the great industrial in
terests whose government contracts
have been literally soggy with
bloody profits.
As Canadians they are tired of
that; as patriots they are sick of all
that infernal blood stained hypo
crisy. As one of them says “this Is
no time for soft words ... a spade
should be tailed a spade, a slave a
slave and a robber class a robber
class no ipatter whose feelings may
be hurt in consequence”. So they
haven't any Hesitation, in Canada,
in calling the government contract
ors and private profit makers who
pile up enormous profits during the
country’s hour of calamity and dis
tress a robber class and they want
to say ar.d I hey do say that it is not
by promoting exclusively the inter
ests of the robber class that they
are going to promote either liberty
or democracy.
They say that the Dominion of
| Canada is in deadly peril. They
say that that being so no interest
<an refuse to sacrifice itself for the
j Dominion. They say that labor will
| will not and capitalists dare not,
' that private interests must not. They
| declare that it will be their function
| to sec that they do not and that
the nation in its hour of need takes
l and uses every single factor that
might be of use in winning the war;
that every cent of profit made in the
war is a crime and a danger to free
dom and that when done in the
name of patriotism it is a menace
to the nation and a blasphemy upon
nationalism. They declare that the
time has gone by when the other
fellow must be called upon by these
powerful national sharks to make a
sacrifice: they must be sacrificed
themselves.
WIZARD WAS VERY
SICK MAN; SETTER
SANTA ROSA, July 23 —Luther
Burbank, the botanical wiza"d of the
west, was taken critically ill and the
doctors tonight were uneasy for his
recovery. He caught cold following
heat prostration and symptoms of
pneumonia rapidly developed His
physicians say that the man's perfect
constitution and regular life are
all in his favor. v
SANTA ROSA, July 2 4.—Tills
morning and throughout the day,
Luther Burbank continued to im
prove and "•he doctors feel that they
will be able to pall him through un
less a sudden relapse occurs which
is not expected.
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