South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-03
NOVEMBER ), 1910.
DON'T BE BLUFFED, Mr.. WORKER
THE REASON FOR YOUR JOB

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WAYS \ COWARD WHEN CONFRONTED
WITH THE RIGHT KIND OF RESISTANCE.
1T Is TOO AFRAID OF A NATIONWIDE
MOVEMENT TOWARD GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP OF THE FACTORS OF PRO-
DUCuON AND DISTRIBUTION. AND THAT
CAPITALISTS MAY HAVE TO ROLL UP
THEIR SLEEVES AND GO TO WORK
LIKE YOU.
But they say that when the ends, and
Europe returns to work, they will food
American markets with cheap goods, and your
employer will be unable TO compete. and that ne
will have TO lay you OF. 1T Is BUNK. Re
member that when the war ends there Will be
about ten million less men TO return to work
over there, and the remainder will have
than they can do for decade or more, to
supply their markets. We OF America
you, Mr.. Workngman,-win have TO help
them kas.A e.
DO YOU KNOW WHY EVERYBODY IN
AMERICA Is EMPLOYED TO-DAY AT SUCHn
SPLENDID WAGES? No. it isn't because we
are manufacturing munitions and supplies
for the allies. Less than three per cent of
Iast years business is of that order. 1T Is
BECAUSE DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS
THE PEOPLE OF EUROPE HAVE BEEN
GOING To WAR AND GETTING SHOT IN
STEAD OF COMING TO AMERICA TO GET
YOUR JOB.
We can prove that too. During the fiscal
year ending June so, 1910. immigrants TO the
United States numbered 1,O11,7jO; for the
year ending June, 1911, il was S7S,5S7. and
the next year sSs.t72. jumping up again to
1,197, S92 i'm 1913 and to ,21S, $50 for the year
ending June 80, 1914. On Aug. 1 OF that year
the European war broke out, and the total
number of immigrants to America for the year
ending june 80 1915, was only $4,000. The
number for 1915 will DC even less than that,
according to immigration reports, but exact
figures are not at hand.
YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCES. A YOUNG
NATION EVERY YEAR, PREVIOUS TO
1918. HAS BEEN COMING TO THE UNITED
STATES. READY TO TAKE YOUR JOB OR
FORCE YOU TO WORK FOR LESS MONEY.
In 1915 and 1916 that competition i'm the labor
market has been literally cut out. THE
NIsN WHO IN PREVIOUS YEARS EITHER
FELL INTO THAT MUCH MOOTED DREAD
LINE" THEMSELVES OR FORCED YOU
INTO TT BY TAKING YOUR JOB AT a
LESSER WAGE, HAVE ALL FOUND EN-
PLoXNIENT DUE TO THE STOPPAGE OF
OTHERS COMING TO TAKE THEIR JOBS
AND FORCE THEM INTO THE DREAD
LINE"
IL Is a question OF tariffs at aII-save as
high tariffs. without reciprocal high tariff,
tends to paupcrizc the foreigner and make
immigrant OF him. He comes To America TO
escape the pauperism forced upon him I'm his
native land ny America, through the high
protective tariff system formerly waged and
coming here tends 10 paUpcrize America her
self Democracy proposes TO give to your
friends and neighbors beyond the brine, a
decent chance for decent living at home, and
by - doing conserve American wOrlingmen
a decent chance for decent living here.
You have that chance now in the general
prosperity. universal employment. and the
highest wages paid in history KEEP IT. 1t
is the very thing that the protective tariff
grafters want TO destroy. UNDER THE
PRESENT SYSTEM. WAR OR No WAR YOUR
EMPLOYERS WILL NOT LET YOU co NO
DIFFERENCE HOW THE ELECTION GOES
BECAUSE HE CANNOT GIT ANYONE To
TAKE YOUR PLACE, AND 1T WILL BE
YEARS BEFORE HE WILL BE ABLE TO
IN ANY CONSIDERABLE NUMBERS. Europe
will need all her available men, including her
cripples and her manned, for years after the
war, with which TO reconstruct herself.
We appreciate that il may not be good for
the employers OF labor TO have let the eat out
OF the bag after this manner. but they have
brought Il out themselves. Let them quit
their political uickery, their partisan skull
tuggery; their preying upon fear. proncring
intimidation that is akin TO coercion. if no.