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SENATOR HOLLIS DEFENIS j
ORGANIZED SHIP WORKERS
WASHINGTON, March 8 1918
(By Mail)—The public press, last
week, gave wide publicity to a
speech by Senator McCmnber ot
North Dakota, who charged labor ]
with being bolsheviki and capital
ists with profibrering. His solu
tion for profiteering was to slap
capitalists on the wrist. In the
case of labor he took strong ground
and in thunderous tones demanded
that it be conscripted—or, "regis
tered”, as he termed it.
The public press, however, made
sparse mention cf this reply by
Senator Hollis of New Hampshire.
"Mr President: In the general
indictment of this country and the
people thereof that has just been
delivered by the distinguished sena
tor from North Dakota, my atten
tion is attracted by his charge that
the labor of the United States in
this emergency is unpatriotic. He
challenges any one to deny that
charge. I deny it most emphati
cally. I ought further to say that
the senator began by indicting the
government, the war department,
the shipping board, tho capitalists,
those who work, those who do not
work, those who work in shops,
those who work on the farms.
With his natural gallantry, he ex
empts the women, and I thought
that he was going, through a sense
of pride, to exempt members of
congress, but before he took his
seat he indicted the members of
congress—all of them.
"Det the capitalists take care of
themselves; I have no doubt they
will. Det the farm laborers take
care of themselves, as I know they
will, and none will l> so devoted
to them by the next campaign as
will the distinguished s mat or from
North Dakota; but I do wish to say
a word about the specific case of
union labor at Hog Island.
"It is easy enough'to get up and
read from some magazine which is
controlled by capital, that is de
pendent for its success upon the
contributions from advertisers, that
labor is but 50 per cent efficient;
it is easy enough to read from
newspapers, from some special ar
ticle written by a reporter who must
attract attention by his sensational
statements in order to be .retained
in the employ of the paper, that
labor is 50 per cent efficient, but,
Mr. President, labor has not yet
been heard from in regard to the
Hag Island inquiry. It seems to me
that the operations at Hog Island
have been somewhat discouraging.
We are called on, as the senator
from North Dakota calls on us
here now, to build ships, and it is
said, ‘do not be so careful about
what they cost, but build ships’(
The Shipping Board turned to the
captains of industry of thto coun
try, Stone and Webster, Mr. Vander
pp—the list of names sounds like
a meeting of the American Manu
facturers' association, in combina
tion with the American Bankers'
association and a Republican con
vention. Those men wore told to
build ships and to build shipyards,
and then the evidence conies in
that they have been wasteful and
extravagant about it. There are
senators now at Hog Island investi
gating that subject, and we shall
got he truth from them; but when
the30 capitalists arc charged with
extravagance it is attempted by
them to lay it on organized labor
and to say they are not driving as
many rivets as they did before the
war. My information is that labor
i ers have been taken there and kept
day after day without having a
chance to work; and that they
have been taken there and set to
work, and yet there is no place for
them to live, except miles and miles
away, so that it takes them hours
to get to their work.' How can a
man drive rivets when he is travel
ing on street cars or walking back
and ferth to his v/r.rk?
“I am told that the rivets that
have been furnished by the capita'
isto of this country are deficient
that they are not made of the prop
er material; that they cannot be
clinched. I am told also that the
pneumr.tic power furnished for driv
ing rivits has bc-en insufficient, due
to the lack of coal or due to cold
weather.
“I do not know but that the labor
at Hog Island is deficient in some
respects. That would not be sur
prising, for the best workmen are
the men who are living in their
own homes. They will not leave
New Hampshire, they will not leave
New York, and they will not leave
Ohio to go to Hog Island to work
when they are satisfied with their
conditions at home. You get the
floaters for that work; you get
the. men who are looking for a
chances to improve their conditions;
who are looking for a small day’s
work for a large day’s pay, per
haps. You will not get the best
men there at first, though they may
come later.
“There will be impudent boys;
there will be boys who will not
work; you connot help that; but^
these isolated cases do not prove
(hat the grc.ir bulk of American
labor in this country is unpatriotic.
If I believed that statement, I
would favor making immediate
peace with the kaiser on the best;
terms I could get. We cannot v/.nj
this war unless American citizens'
generally and American Workmen in
particular are patriotic.
“It is no way to make workm-n
satisfied and contented and efficient
to call them names; to call them
bolsheviks; that is not the way to
do it. There is a great labor prob
lem in this country; there is a
a greater one in England; there is a
groat one in France; and the great
est of all in Russia; but the way
to solve tha't problem is by calm,
dispassionata argument and debate
cud council with one another, and j
not by abusing labor and making
exparte statements against them.”
Labor is the power that will bring
all the Great Powers to peace. The
Bolsheviki in Russia, France, Italy,
'the United States, Great Britian arc
giving militarism, imperialism, aris
tocracy, autocracy their—or rather
its—for they are all one—its orders
of abdication.Labor has forced min
isters and presidents to speak the
things the workers will. Even In
Germany the people take their cue
from the Russian “madmen” and
the despotry plots a last stand
aganist the masses through a dic
tatorship and the abrogation of all
pretensions of representative govern
ment. British labor’s manifesto de
clares for the Russian ideals of peace
for self-government of peoples in the
empire, in Africa and India—by
emphasis of silence on the subject,
In Ireland?—for conscription of j
capital us will as income. Lloyd
George addresses the Trades Unions
I before he does the Commons on
peace terms. President Wilson goes
to Buffalo to address the Federa
tion of Labor. Clemenceau holds
power in France at he mercy of the
Socialists. Schiedemann and a few
other Socialists jolt von Hertling
out of the German Chancellorship.
The United States indorses the
Russian Revolution in good set
terms. And all the world over,
the control of distribution and pro
duction by the governments for the
people is shaking private monopoly
and exploitation. Labor solidarity
internationally crescent is massed
against kaiserism and junkerism for
their destruction. Who can doubt
the outcome? The workers of the
world will win the war and pu^I an
end to war. The real democracy
is giving laws to rulers, cabinet,
councils, parliaments, dictating the
purpose and the policy of govern
ments and preparing the way for a
new free earth.—William Marion
Reedy in Mirror.
SOLDIERS GET BEHIND
BRITISH LABOR PARTY
Prestige and Influence of Labor is
growing tremendously in Great
Britian.
Recently the constitution of the
British Labor Party has been radi
cally changed, heretofore member
ship has been confined to the Labor
and Socialist organizations, the
Fabians and the co-operative move
ment, now the doors have been
thrown, open to all citizens who
subscribe to its platform and pledge
themselves to work for the triumph
of the principles it is organized to
uphold.
One significant fact in. connect
ion with the movement is the strong
support the party is receiving from
the enlisted soldiers and the wound
ed who have returned from the
battle line. The soldiers are solidly
in favor of Labors political program
thousands of them who have never
belonged to a trade union and in
many cases were prejudiced against
the working class and its propagan
da.
These are all facts that are be
ginning to be recognized by diplo
mats and statesmen in Europe and
America alike, as well as in Britain
itself.
But great as has been the pro
gress of Organized Labor in Britain
in the past it can safely be predicted
that after the war is over its pres
tige and influence will be immensely
greater than it is at the present
time.
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