The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-10-04
No Man Should Resort To Strike
Now, Unless Every Other
rleans Has Failed.
inclined, pray as much as you like.
Time and Place fnr AL

inclined, pray as much as you like
Time and Place for All.
Everything has its proper place and
time. A wise couple do not settle
their quarrels and their differences in
the presence of company They wait
until the company departs and then,
either in peace or in strife, bring their
disputes to an end 1t is the natural
impulse of a human being to keep all
his troubles and complaints to himself.
Surely, no one relates his personal
wrongs to an enemy If at all, he CON
fides them to a friend, and so the
grievances that labor has against cap
ital, and they are numerous, must not
and will not be adjusted, peacefully or
otherwise, while The kaiser is warning
upon US In time like this, march
ing side by side, sharing each others
sorrows, sharing each others Joys,
capital and labor must lay down their
differences and fight the kaiser until
he is licked Once he is out of the
way, | promise you that we shall re-
turn to the adjustment of internal af-
fairs. urge upon no toiler, no work
er, the surrender of his inalienable
right to strike or walk out, or to give
up one principle for which labor
stands. But in time of war, face to
face with our common enemy, we have
a single task which dividedly we cam
not accomplish; unitedly we will
This is world war-a war for civ
ilization in which labor holds the mas
ter hand. There is only one way in
which, as nation with but one
thought and one hope, we can back the
boys over There" and that is by
working here as they fight "Over
There" without any profiteering
A man who would resort to strike
now, unless every other means pos
sible had failed, should suffer pun
ishment and Imprisonment. On the
other hand, any employer in this war
who profiteers and for profit permits
a strike or causes a lockout, should
be stood against a stone wall and shot
All Must Do Share.
The nation takes your boy and my
boy and musters them in, sends them
across, puts them upon fixed ration,
and for thirty dollars a month makes
them fight and chance their lives for
the country. The men "over there"
cannot fight unless the men here make
the things wherewith to fight, and why
should the men "over there" risk all
without profiteering, while men here
are profiteering, and all without any
risk whatsoever?
Germany is fighting to dominate
the world; we are fighting for a
worlds humanity. We seek not an
inch of ground from any nation; we
ask no indemnity from any country
We are pouring in all our youth and
all our resources for worlds lasting
peace.
This war has worked wonders. First,
it has uncovered the hypocracy of Kul-
tur, under whose lighted will-of-the-
wisp wings the world was slowly sink
ing into the insecure bog of mill
tarist oligarchy. The kaiser measured
his strength too soon. Had he waited
some ten years more, he might have
found much easier his task of whip
ping the universe, for the world was
falling asleep at the portals of peace,
but had not yet dozed off completely.
What World Has Learned.
This is a great war in that it has
brought the world to a realization that
without the workers the war cannot
eb won. England tried bo and she
suffered irreparably during the first
two years of the war. AS soon as
she entered into partnership with or
ganized labor, however, she began to
win. England's message to this coun-
try was a warning to guard against
the mistakes she made at first, and
as result, the nation has recognized
labor, has placed it's leaders on the
various war boards, has created the
War Labor Board, and has declared
for the national labor policy.
The mandate is for the winning of
the war and whoever stands in the