Denver labor bulletin., 1918-03-16

needed equipment or supplies, then
/ their blood will be on the hands of
those of us who have withheld our
support. We cannot escape our re-
sponsibility to those who are offering
their lives for our protection. We
must labor to produce the things that
are needed and we must curtail our
own consumption in order that we may
the better supply our soldiers and our
allies.
To prosecute the war with full ma
tional strength the government must
have first call for labor and materials
for war purposes. Every working man
is drafted for service to do his part
in producing war goods or in support
ing war producers. He is also drafted
for service in economiZing and saving
in every possible way so as to lessen
his own competition against our own
government for labor and materials.
The more unnecessary things are con-
sumed the greater the demand for la
Dor and materials to reproduce them,
and the less labor and materials are
available to the government to prose-
cute the war. 1t is only by teaching
the people to save and not to compete
with the government for labor and
materials that we can put the whole
strength of the nation into this war.
| AS labor men we are called upon to
support the war savings campaign be-
cause:
1. 1t is our patriotic duty to sup
port the government and to save
money in every possible way in order
to lend it to the government.
2. In saving money to invest in war
savings stamps, we are lessening the
demand for labor and capital to pro-
| naada1 a
war, and we are lending money to the
government to make a demand for
labor and things needed for the war.
8. Changes in industry must come.
To win the war we must produce war
goods. By refraining from purchas-
ing non-essentials and by investing
these savings in war stamps, we are
using our own purchasing power in a
democratic way to change the condi-
tions of industry to meet the war
needs-a method much to be preferred
to the communicating process by
which one factory may be closed as
non essential while another may be
taken over by the government.
T. The war must be won for it is
our fight Our rights and privileges,
our homes and our lives are at stake.
We must be united, with every man
and every dollar doing full patriotic
duty in support of our country.
5. As trade unionists, we have
asked from state and nation the enact
ment of laws and the establishment
of policies calculated to improve the
conditions of wage earners. Now the
nation is calling upon us for support,
and it is for US to denote, by the
support we give at this time, that we
are entitled now and in the future to
extra consideration at the hands of
the law makers of state and nation.
6. The forming of habits of thrift
and saving and investing in these war
savings stamps, which pay per cent
interest, compounded quarterly, and
are redeemable at any time at cost,
plus per cent, will benefit every war
saver, because these savings repre-
sent the habit of thrift and protection
against the time of need.
AS labor men we are drafted for
service no less than our brothers in
the trenches. So also are our dollars.
Let us be 100 per cent patriotic. No
matter what others may do, or fail to
do, let us see to it that the banner of
organized labor is always in the front
rank of patriotic service, realizing that
we are drafted for service both indi-
vidually and collectively.