The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-02
MIN THE WAR FOR
 DE M O CRACY Gompers, in Europe, Sends Labor Day Message Home VICTORY IS CERTAIN War Will End When We Win and Not Until Then, the Labor Leader Says-How Labor Day Will
 Be Celebrated

New York, September Twin the war for freedom" is the keynote of Labor Day symposium of Greetings to the American People" written by Samuel Gompers and other labor leaders and issued tonight b ythe American Alliance for Labor and Democracy as a pledge of organized labor's 100 per cent efforts for the cause of the republic.
 Win the war for fredom'' is inscribed upon the banners of Americas workers today in every city and hamlet" wrote the president of the American Federation of Labor, who is now on mission to England, France and Italy. 'It is the message that will be spoken from every platform. It is the song of every heart. It. is a war for freedom because only through victory can there be freedom
 The working people of America are conscious of their vital part in making victory possible and they will do their part, not as a task, but as a right to share in the work of securing forever that freedom which they prize above all things.
 We need have no recourse to rhetoric to state our case. The facts are simply stated, but of supreme importance. Our democracy Is assailed. our liberty is in jeopardy Autocracy challenges our sa- cred rights.
 MOST SACRED DUTY
 We count it our most sacred duty to win safety for our freedom and our democracy, for only when they are safe can life give to us it's opportunities and It's value. Win the war for freedomr To that proposition we dedicate our labor and our lives as Americans and as work CTS. It is the supreme purpose of our lives on this Labor Day"
 Messages of similar character were written by the heads of the Typographical. street railway, mine workers pattern makers cigar makers, trainrnenss, letter carrier, muscians', railway telegraphers. locomotive firemen's and carpteners or ganzations
 warning against overconfidence based on the retreat of the German army was voiced by George Creel, chairman or the committee on public information. at pre-Labor Day meeting of the New York Postoffice Clerks union here to- day.
 The war. he said, cannot be lost in France, but can only be lost in the United States. Continuing, he said:
 Ultimate victory is as certain as the coming of the dawn, but in the very joy or present successes there is a danger that is as menacing as German arms.
 Already. from numerous sources, we are receiving information that proves that the disintegrating force Of overcon- iidence are at work. People are say hlg What is the use of the new draft law2' and sWhat is the use of another Liberty Loan? The war will soon be over.
 Germany could well afford to spend millions to spread this point of view In its essence it is defeatism of the worst sort It weakens the will to save, to serve, to give and above all. 1t weakens the will to fight and the will to win.
 Let no one ask you: When will the war end?' for 1t is q question that tears at the very heart of resolve. This war will end when we win, and not until them
 Local officials of the American Feder- ation of Labor tonight completed prep. arations for q great Labor Day demon- straticn here. They estimated that 150,U01 workers would march.
 As q part of the Labor Day excitiaes in New Jersey, a monument to the mem ory of President James A. tiai field will he unveiled in the afternoon ut Long Branch, where he died in 1881.