The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-01-13
LABOR ASKS
NEW. SCHOOL OF
DIPLOMACY
President Wilson to Be Petitioned
to 1naugurate the World
Wide Movement.

JOPLIN, Mo-, Jan. 11.-At a time
when the wreck of worlds is breaking
about their ears and our brothers are
dying at each others hands in blood
stained Europe, children made ia
therless. widows left dependent, and
civilization halted by the bloody
orgie, men of the Organized Labor
Movement of America are wondering
what it is all about and if there be
no preventive of war. Certain it is,
there is no excuse to be offered for
the present saturnalia of crime in
Europe-no cause whatever is to be
fund for the slaughter Of men, women
and children in wholesale quantities.
1t is also within reason to state there
never was a war which could be justi-
fed.
A New Diplomatic School.
Having determined during the
present war that such butchery must
end, the men of labor-they who. fur
nish the human targets for murder
Gus cannon-are now casting about
for way out.
Organized Labor of America is ask
ing that new school of diplomacy
be instituted by. President Wilson-a
return, if you will. to the good old
days of DR.. Ben Franklin. whose wise
and humane counsel was so highly
priced. The valiant men of labor are
going to demand that real men rep
resent this government, and not mere.
dignified handles with monocle.
aping the customs of the sixteenth
century,
This is the day of men-men with
!,
big brains to meet and analyze the
the big problems of today So in
stead of subtle statecraft, cunning and
deceit, the jockeying for advantage
among the nations diplomats. there
must come a new set of men with
love in their hearts. for all mankind:
way above race intolerance, preju-
dice, bigotry, chicanery end last, but
not least, men who detest war and
the glitter of gold braid.>
This new order of diplomats. it is.
believed by labor leaders, will do
much to cement the friendly relations
among. all people-for, after all, we
are all Of one common clay, and each
alike returns to the dust of creation.
For years and years the columns
of the European press were filled
with correspondence from the various
capitals of the continent and England,
which correspondence breathed war
in almost every line; military at
taches of the different embassies
talked war and. conquest to be begun
by the other nations. It lis a fact
that men who are in the army serv-
ice are prepared for war. They think
it, plan it almost daily, and have
really no place in the capitals of the.
world. Business men and humani-
tarians should have the preference
Should this be the universal rule. la
Dor men believe much can be done
toward the abolition of the war spirit.
Endorse Local Townsman.
Having thoroughly discussed the
proposition from every angle, and
CARNATIONS of this country with this
idea, to President Gompers and
through our great head to President
Wilson, the Joplin Trades Assembly
has endorsed Gabriel +. Newburger
of the city of Joplin, as fully quail
fled in every respect to be cur next
ambassador to Japan under the new
order of things.
1t is the desire of lacol labor lead
ers that every trades unis in the
United States will see the policy of
such move on our part and sincere
ly and earnestly get behind the move
ment. While it is unique in our field
of endeavor, yet it is something
which we should be vitality interested
in.