The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-03-28


 tory, but it comes too late to find the seamen ready and willing and eager to respond to the country's call, They are not here.
 In peace they stroll the water fronts without ship while orien- tals. because they work more cheap ly, are manning the greater vessels While hundreds drop salt tears that the Oriental flags oust the Stars and mourn at all that the American seaman has also been busted from the American ships, and become landsman.
 So it is that. today when eighty thousand seamen are needed there are none. The seamen couldn't make living in time of peace and he has turned landsman. Is the country now to turn to the Oriental whom the shipping companies have always found place for in it's houI of need?
 Moreover. and furthermore how is it that the country is short of men? What has become of the thousands who paraded for preparedness? :? Has that been all sham? Did the hundred thousands who marched in a1l bn t,rinninol nit of do so simply for show and intend that the other fellow should so do the fighting? Where are these hundreds of thousands who have been alleged to be boosting the work of Security LauguerS? Are they staying at home secure" while they pre-suppose that the other fellows 1 will take their chances? The United | States Navy needs only eighty thou sand men. There were millions i have been shouting war and prepar- i ness. What is the matter with i them? Where are they hiding them i selves? Don't they know that Mili- ] tarist Opportunity now knocks at | their door?
 ] Here have been thousands oi i newspaper writers throughout the country boosting war. They want. | ed the United States to fight Mexico and they wanted fall out of Japan and now it is Germany Well Uncle l Sam can use them. but they don' 1 stir. No fears; they rae sitting close to their chairs penning rec l hot war articles, young men of mi i litary age for the workers to get { gun and go a-shooting or get shot
 We say that the country does no want war: never has wanted it! The mass of the people are opposed to 1t organized labor is opposed to it the organized farmers are fighting it. Who wants it? Who but tho ! powerful capitalists in Wall Street They arc the men who sneered Will son until his noble policy of neutral 1 ity. shrivelled and withered before their sardonic leers and outrageous denunciations. Those men, wht were too rich to fight, too busy pro 1 fiteering to fight, too well salariet to fight, too old to fight, have sheer | ed until their faces assumed ; Mephistophelean leer at the splen ' did principle of men being tot proud to fight: that men could liv' | in this day and age and pity tn, unfortunates who were driven int the shambles to gratify the lust 10 power or the lust for profits Of tn ruling classes; that men should no ] ignobly view both sides to quare and in all justice avoid it as the de mentia of covert or overt greed, O the equally insensate lust to xii and slay and conquer.
 They are the ones who now clam ourously demand war who now pa triotically wave their flags to arous' the blood lust of the people. The, have denounced and attacked an( satirized and lampooned Bryan ant every public man who dare stand III against war. They have hurled fou abuse and treated him with ridicul' and odium. They have flooded thu country with the literature of theil doctrines and announced the nobilit! of conquest and imperialism ant battle and destruction before thu people who never stirred to theil | importunities, but who did rally tt the standard of one who went be fore the country on his four year