The labor standard., 1918-09-01

enemy in the fact of nnonstrous machine gun fire or through clouds of poison gas, while at home, members of the Federation of Labor in shipyards and munition plants and other Allied industries are holding the second lines of battle, in order that the world may be safe for democracy. In this terrible struggle, the flower of our country are willing to sacrifice life and limb for here at home. We must not fail in our efforts to help them while they are engaged in helping us. There must be no slackers among organizations of labor. It is work or fight with every man able to do either. All must do one GOT the other. Strikes and ewalk-outs or other griev- ances must be left until the greater damage has been removed and then if we desire to recur to an industrial war, there will be time for it. The nations difficulty is not and must not be labor's opportunity. If labor cannot win this war and if labor does not by every means in it's power do so, no matter what sacrifices may be involved, then the world will not be safe place for any man to labor. Let me say to you in this connection that the old social order is gone and gone forever. We will never return to it. Let us then bend every effort in sustaining our president in the orllys real objection which should control and dominate men at this time, the winning of, the war.
 
 highest order and greatest value. In fact, women have always been the chief support of any war. No bullet ever pierced the flesh of any man anywhere that did not find the heart of woman somewhere. The splendid resigna- tion with which mothers part with their boys expecting. if necessary, that if the lives of the boys go out, that they will go out in glory, is one of the real significant features of the sacrifices of the mothers in country.
 Let us have no talk of peace while the war continues. Our only talk should be that of victory, and that victory will best be accom- plished when American bands leading American soldiers and playing the Star Spangled Ban ner in the streets of Berlin
 Our country has entered this war in con- quest not for territorial, aggrandizement, but in order to secure to the free people of the world and to the peoples of all country the right to life, to liberty, to the pursuit of hap piness. in order to secure to the peoples of the world honor. truth and justice. When these have been made secure, country will rightly take its place among the nations of the earth as the greatest and most pow erful of all of the nations in the world.
 Refreshments Served
 After the marchers had reached hlv0TSluG pdTkf fISlTcSIlI1SIlLS SOAASASG- ing of sandwiches were. served.
 Red Cross Workers
 The committee of the Red Cross were composed of: Mrs. George N. Putnam, Mrs. William Schall, Mrs. A.. O. Whitford, Mrs. F. s. s. Reed, Mrs. J. J. Schaprowe,. Miss Marion Chap pell, Mrs. Marenda Holmes Bryant, Mrs. Charles F. Grimpe and Mrs. E.. s. Futile. a,-- ..s. ..-.
 Unions Have Banquets
 All the halls in the city were hired for Monday afternoon by the unions who had merry time in private ban quets. The Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers banqueted in the K. of c. hall in State street. Theys employed the Westerly band for the afternoon. The Westerly band entertained at the F. L. Hook and Ladder house during L .fk