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’WHY AMERICAN LABOR IS BACK OF TIIE WAR
George W. Perkins, president of the international union of eigai
makers, one of the most powerful organizations in the l nited States,
and which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, makes
an extended statement as to why American organized labor is so unani
mously supporting the government m its war to a finish against auto
cracy. This statement is primarily addressed to the laboring men of
the United Stall's, but it is so informing with respect to labor conditions
in the Teutonic powers, and so succinctly points out the reasons why
American workingmen should stand by this government at this time,
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“Why is American organized labor so unanimously supporting
the United States government in its war to a finish against autocracy?
“If all of you who read this article had been with me in Germany
the year before the great war broke out you would have no need to ask.
You would have seen, as 1 saw. autocracy at work, intimidating and
coercing labor, spying on it. policing its meetings, suppressing free
speech. When all these methods failed, you would have seen, as I saw.
autocracy trying to corrupt labor, misleading it by insidious propa
ganda. seeking to raise up false leaders, and using the power of money
and intluenee to debauch those who seek to mitigate the condition of the
workers.
“You should have returned, as 1 did. thankful to be permitted
to live in a land of freedom and democracy, and resolved, as 1 was.
if ever our liberties wore menaced by the powers of autocracy, to tiglu
to the death : to work to the limit : to make ev< ry sacrifice, and to accept
no compromise until autocracy, such as is typified by the present Ger
man government, is defeated in a finish fight and the militarism which
keeps it in power is crushed forever from the face of the earth.
“I went to Europe in the early fall of 19U> as representative of
the American Federation of Labor to the World's Congress—tin1 In
ternational Federation of Trade Unions, at Zurich, Switzerland. Like
the representatives of the organized labor movements of other nations.
1 went as a poor man. resolved to make the trip .just as cheaply as pos
sible. because labor has no money to spend on the junketings of its rep
resentatives. 1 went there for work, not for pleasure.
“But Switzerland is one the borders of Germany. Zurich was filled
with supposed leaders of the labor movement of Germany. They were
not delegates, but somehow, they were there. They were not pool* mu,
if the way they spent money was any indication. They seemed to have
unlimited funds.
“Their mission seemed to be to spend money. We have always
supposed that the “Dutch treat" originated in Germany, but somehow
these men from Germany seemed never to have heard of it.
Their sole aim. apparently, was to wine and dine the repre
sentatives of other countries. They would invite a man out to
luncheon or dinner on the pretext that they wished to consult
him on some important matter, lie would find, as I found more than
once, that the matter would be just about as important a question of
whether adjournment should be taken at 12 o'clock or live minutes to
twelve. In fact, it often would be hard to discern any matter at all
which would warrant this sudden manifestation of friendship and in
t crest.
“But the conversation always drifted around to the interests of
Germany in the world, its superiority, and the utter futility of any
one standing out against it. The aim. apparently, was to make friends
for Germany. It took the world war, however, to reveal the full mean
ing and extent of what these propagandists were driving at.
"When it came to paying the eheek some of these Germans were
there with bells on. I don’t know where they got the money, dust go
and look in on the headquarters of some of the German unions or visit
the home of the some of the Berman workers and see if you think they
got the money there.
“For years before this war broke out, the dream of sentimental in
ternationalists of the world had been to prevent international strife by
general strikes in case of wars of conquest. At a meeting several years
ago of the miners’ representatives from many lands, an English dele
gate proposed a resolution providing that in the event of a war of ag
gression the miners of both countries involved should refuse to dig coal.
The German delegation said that if such a resolution was even intro
duced they would have to withdraw, for if they even sat in a meeting in
which such a resolution was discussed they would be tried and executed
for treason.
“The same thing has happened on other occasions. The German
delegations always knew they would have to refuse to have anything to
do with any proposal to interfere with their government's plans for
world conquest or face a firing squad.
“My personal experience while studying the labor movement in
Germany w as such as to make me more than ever absolutely and unqual
ifiedly back of our government in this war. I found absolutely no democ
racy in the German labor movement. No meeting of workingmen could
be held in Germany without government police supervision. No one
could speak in a foreign tongue at any labor meeting, without first sub
mitting his speech to the autocratic government, having it censored and
being given a permit to make the address.
‘‘1 could not speak at a meeting of cigarmakers called for organiza
tion purposes, because J would first have had to submit in writing a
copy of my speech. This would have had to be translated into Ger
man, blue-penciled by some representative of an autocratic government,
and translated back into English for the kaiser’s minion to tell me what
I could say. Before all this red tape could have been gone through
with, the day for the meeting would have passed if I had consented to
try to go through with it all.
“For years, in Germany, formation of labor unions was absolutely
prohibited. Workers had to meet secretly and in imminent peril of
arrest. When the German government finally saw the workers could
not be intimidated in this way, it grudgingly granted permission to
organize, but under so many restrictions that any true expression of
labor’s aims and desires was impossible.
“Our forbears disputed the demands of kings and potentates. Re
belling against religious intolerance and social injustice, they started
our first great war. It was successful.
“The second great crisis of our nation brought on the war for the
elimination of human slavery. It, too, was successful.
“Now we are at an even greater crisis. We are fighting that de
mocracy, liberty and justice shall not perish from the earth. Again we
must and will be successful.
“The time for argument is past. The pacifist’s cowardly pleas
are dead. You must now either be pro-American or pro-German; pro
democracy or pro-autocracy. There can be no falling back; no waver
ing. All of us must be heart and soul for democracy and victory, or
for autocracy, militarism and slavish subjection.
PRESIDENT
PEOPLE MUST HE ADJUSTED EC
ONOMICALLY AND INDUSTRI
ALLY TO WAR CONDITIONS.
NEXT LOAN HIGHEST YET.
Chief Executive Asks Every One to
Practice Thrift in Home and Busi
ness Affairs and Buy All Govern
ment Securities Possible—Makes a
Special Appeal to All.
WASHINGTON, June 24.—Presi
dent Wilson today came to the sup
port of Secretary McAdoo’s thrift
pledge campaign. Realizing that to
! wage the war to the achievement of
the purposes laid down bp the presi
dent the American people are faced
with a long and serious struggle, pos
{ sibly testing the resources of wealth
md character to the extreme limit of
endurance and self-denial, Mi-. Mc
Adoo inaugurated a fortnight ago the
campaign of pledges by all patriotic
persons to aid all that lay in then
power to conserve food, fuel, labor
and money as a means of winning the
war. The first aim of this campaign,
as stated by Mr. McAdoo, was to
bring about a condition on the part of
the American people that would in
sure the success of the next war loan,
j which is to be larger than any yet at
To give the pledge campaign the
impulse possible only from executive
approval, President Wilson has issued
the following signed letter appealing
for a nation-wide rally around the na
tional purpose to win the war by per
sonal sacrifice:
“This war is one of nations—not of
armies—and all of our 100,000,000
people must be economically and in
dustrially adjusted to war conditions
if this nation is to play its full part in
the conflict. The problem before us
is not primarily a financial problem,
but rather a problem of increased pro
duction of war essentials, and the sav
ing of the materials and the labor
necessary for the support and equip
ment of our army and our navy.
Thoughtless expenditure of money for
nonessentials uses up the labor of
men, the products of the farm, mines,
and factories, and overburdens trans
portation, all of which must be used
to the utmost and at their best for
war purposes.
“The great results which we seek
can only be obtained by the partici
pation of every member of the na
tion, young and old, in a national
concerted thrift movement. 1 there
fore urge that our people everywhere
pledge themselves, as suggested by
the secretary of the treasury, to the
practice of thrift; to serve the govern
ment to their utmost in increasing
production in all fields necessary to
the winning of the war; to conserve
food and fuel and useful materials
of every kind; to devote their labor
only to the most necessary tasks; and
to buy only those things which are es
sential to individual health and effi
ciency; and that the people, as evi
dence of their loyalty, invest all they
can save in Liberty bonds and war
savings stamps.
“The securities issued by the treas
ury department are so many of them
within the reach of everyone that the
door of opportunity in this matter is
wide open to all of us. To practice
thrift in peace times is a virtue and
brings great benefit to the individual
at all times; with the desperate need
of the civilized world today for mate
rials and labor with which to end the;
war, the practice of individual thrift I
is a patriotic duty and a necessity, j
“I appeal to all who now own either j
Liberty bonds or war savings stamps j
to continue to practice economy and
thrift and to appeal to all who do not
own government securities to do like
wise and purchase them to the extent
of their means. The man who buys,
government securities transfers the!
purchasing power of his money to the
United States government until after;
this war, and to that same degi-ee does j
not buy in competition with the gov- j
ernment.
“I earnestly appeal to every man, j
woman and child to pledge themselves j
on or before the 28th of June to save I
constantly and to buy as regularly as i
possible the securities of the govern- j
ment; and to do this, so far as possi-, I
ble, through membership in war sav-;
ings societies. The 28th of June ends;
this special period of enlistment in ;
the great volunteer army cf produc
tion and saving here at home. May j
there be none unenlisted on that day’.!
“WOODROW WILSON.” j;
WOMEN TAUGHT
TO DRIVE CARS
ENGAGED IN OTHER USEFUL
PURSUITS IN ENGLAND, WHILE
MEN ARE AT WAR.
LONDON, Jur-e 25.—The war has
taught women not only how to drive
cars, make shells, plough Helds and
become effective soldiers, but it also
has taught them, who didn’t know
how before, to cook and to sew.
A writer in a London paper says he
knows of several girls in a British
government office who spend their
J evenings in learning cookery. “Most
l of them,” he says, “come from homes
j where the things of the house have al
ways oeen none ioi mem oy wen-;,
trained servants. I asked one of these !
j girls why she was spending her sparej
time in learning how to boil cabbages j
and make potatoes look attractive.
“ ‘I want to feel independent,” she i
said. ‘I expect to be married shortly, j ;
and I should feel such a fool if my ;
husband came home suddenly on leave j
and I couldn’t cook him a decent din
ner. We can’t count on servants these .
days.’ ”
War work, the writer concludes,
whether it is work in an office or in a
hospital or in a factory, is teaching
women to be businesslike and orderly.
It is teaching them that if a thing has
to be done at all, it is more pleasant
and infinitely easier to do it well than
to do it badly. And, above all, it is
teaching women to be self-dependent,
giving them the desire to make a sue- j
cess of whatever they undertake.
One of the hardest-worked of the
I new order of women employes is the
“conductorette” of the motor bus. Her
job is particularly nerve-wearing and
physically hard. She is exposed to all
kinds of weather and she must be con- •
stantly climbing the narrow winding .
stairs to collect fares for the passen
gers on top. She must make change
in the dark and punch a ticket for ev
ery fare, and the fare, unlike that col
lected in the usual American city
■treet car, varies according to the
distance the passenger desires to ride.
In the rush hours she must handle
surging crowds. \ All these onerous
duties she performs wonderfully well,
and the marvel of it is that the strain
of the work doesn’t spoil her temper.
But it is a rare sight to see a conduc
torette show irritation. As a rule she
is a cheery, friendly little woman who '
gains the goodwill and admiration of
all who ride with her, especially the
Americans. Londoners seem to have <
! recovered long since from their as- ]
I tonishment over her achievements. :
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ARE YOU)
The Man On the |
Fence ? I
Every man who is afflicted with a
disease peculiar to his sex should bear
these points in mind: First—The se
lection of the man who knows and un
derstands his ailment. Second—The
time it requires to cure the trouble.
Third—The cost.
The first of course should be the
most important. Don’t trifle with ex
periments and experimenters, you
come out loser every time. As to the
time, if you select a man who makes
these diseases his specialty, you are
assured of the most modern and up
to-date methods. He goes right to the
spot.
Then the cost—the fact that you can buy a bottle of medicine for
a dollar or get a prescription for the same price, is no guarantee that
you are getting your money’s worth. Quite likely you have tried that
and know it’s true. So that the cost is really no factor at all when
you get what you pay for.
You Want a Cure—That’s the Main Thing
You have been ailing for some time; been thinking about it con
siderably; several times you were on the verge of coming to consult
me; yet you keep putting it off from day to day when you well know
that you will not get well unless vou yourself make the first move.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND
This very minute to consult me and we shall soon see what can be
done to help vou.
YOU”LL GET IT STRAIGHT!
DR. A. W. Lueders
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,OCKS OUT UNION OPERATORS
AND IS NOW SHORT OF EX- |
PERT TELEGRAPHERS.
MESSENGERS ARE ARRESTED.
Subterfuge Considered Violation of
United States Postal Laws Which
Forbid Persons Not Connected With
Service from Carrying Mails Over
Post Roads of the Nation.
WASHINGTON, June 21.—Federal
jfficers yesterday arrested a number
>f Western Union Telegraph com pa
ly traveling agents who were travel
ng on ti’ains between Boston, New
Cork, Philadelphia and Washington,
md seized their suit cases. Investiga
;ions revealed that the messengers
carried suit cases that were filled
,vith messages, which were filed for
ransmission by telegraph.
This practice is considered a viola
don of the postal laws, forbidding
jersons not connected with the postal
service from conducting a traffic in
:ommunications over post roads of the
lation. The Western Union Telegraph
company recently locked out its union
;elegraph operators and is short of
expert operators. It is believed that
;he company has employed this means
)f sending messages by mail for some
:ime past.
The telegraph company declined the
)ffer of mediation on the part of the
’ederal mediation board, headed by
'ormer President Taft, on the grounds
;hat it would refuse to recognize union
abor. The government is being urged
;o take over the Western Union lines
md may do so.
KERENSKY ON
WAY TO AMERICA
LONDON, June 26.—Alexander F.
Kerensky, minister of justice in the
irst Russian cabinet following the
overthrow of Czar Nicholas and who
ater became the head of the revolu
;ionary government until compelled to
■elinquish the reins of power by the
3olsheviki party, is in London. He is
>n his way to the United States,
jresumably on some mission con
aected with Russian affairs.
BAKER AND MARCH OPPOSED TO
ANY CHANGE EXTENDING
AGE LIMIT AT THIS TIME.
THINK POLICY PREMATURE.
Head of Army and Chief of Staff Say
War Department Will Submit to
Congress Within Sixty Days a New
and Enlarged Army Program for
Increasing Service.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.—
Secretary of War Baker and Chief of
Staff March yesterday informed the
military committee of the senate that
they were opposed to the proposed
extension of the draft age limits as
premature and unnecessary at this
time. The provost marshal, General
Crowder, while favoring an extension
of the draft age limit, said he did not
insist upon immediate action in the
matter, although he thought the law
should be revised so as to' secure men
under the proposed age limit early
next year. The committee decided to
oppose any changes in the draft age
at this time.
Baker and March said that within
sixty days the war department will
submit to the congress a new and en
larged army program, covering the
number of men it proposes to raise
for army service and also dealing
with shipping and other problems.
BRITISH PUT
TAX ON MAH
LONDON, June 22.—Until the new
budget put a war tax on mail, this
country has been sending letters for
a penny—two American cents—for
seventy-eight years. Not until 1870
was the postcard introduced. It has
required a half-penny stamp, now
raised to a penny, for inland delivery.
Papers here express the belief that
the increased postal charges will
cause more post cards to be used. In
announcing the increase of half a
penny for letter postage, the chancel
lor of the exchequer pointed out that
the new rate had been fixed by all the
big countries of the world.
Anchorage Daily Times, “The
Newspaper of Alaska.”