The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1918-05-31
Will Do It's Duty, In Every Phase
Of Life, But Is Not Going To
Be Exploited, Says Hugh
Frayne.

than they had been equipped to do.
But have you not read within the
last few days where men in the ship
yards and other places are doing
tasks so great that it was absolutely
unheard of in pre-war times? Cap
plause.)
And these men, realizing that we
must have soldiers first, many of
them are contributing their sons,
some three, four and five for the
cause. The fathers and the brothers
of the workingmen in large numbers
have gone to the army to serve in
this cause. They have contributed
out of their small earnings to every
cause and purpose that had for its
purpose the victory which we all are
so anxious to see.
Labor Will Not Be Exploited.
Labor, in every phase of life, is
going to do its duty, but labor is
not going to be exploited. The man
who takes advantage of labor in this
crisis, the man who fails to recog-
niz that justice belongs to labor, not
only now, but all the times, does not
come up to the hundred per cent citi-
zen that we all expect and hope and
want to see. Hence he has failed in
his duty in that respect. (Applause.) }
In the workshops, in the mines, and
in the factories, this work is being
done, and in order that it will be
efficiently done we want labor to be
satisfied that it will receive a wage
that will give it decent living, and
keep them and theirs up to the proper
maximum of efficiency. Let them not
only feel that in their work in pro-
ducing the things necessary to win
the war, but with each gun, with each
shell, with each pair of shoes, with
each uniform, or with anything else
that goes out of the factory or work
shop, not only should it be well done
labor feel, by realizing that it is
and hundred per cent good, but let
labor feel, by realizing that that it is
recognized properly, that their very
hearts and souls are in that work,
and in the highest enthusiastic man
ner they are American citizens, first,
last and all the time. applause
A few days ago, we read in the
paper about a tremendously large gun
that the Germans had shooting some
seventy-fve miles. Every one mar
veled. Some were not ready to be-
lieve it. Our greatest scientific men
and men who understand things of
this kind could hardly believe that
there was such thing possible. Yet
| believe we have all come to realize
that it is true.
We may not be able to build a gun
to shoot as that particular gun has
been shooting, but l have in mind
that the American people could build
a gun, by united determination that
will not only shoot seventy five miles,
but will shoot from the United States
of America into the very heart of the
city of Berlin, Germany. (Applause.)
And that gun should be made out of
and constructed of the patriotism of
the American people (Applause.)
Echo of Americans.
The shells which it should fire
would be made from the voices, from
the determination of the American
people, and its echo from Berlin
throughout Germany to the trenches
on the Western and other fronts, to
our boys in the trenches and to our
Allies, should be the voice of the
American people when that shell eX-
ploded, the voices of all our people
ringing out to the world that we are
united, determined that this war shall
be won, that there is no division
among us, that the rich and the poor
will give everything merial that they
possess in order to bring this about,
and if necessary, we will place upon
the alter of sacrifice our very lives in
order that the world may be safe for
Democracy. (Applause.)
This war is going to do more to
humanize the world than anything
else that ever came into it up to the
present time. While it is a terrible
price to pay by the sacrifice of thou
sands upon thousands of young lives,
the flower of this and other coun-
tries-yet it seems that it could not
be helped Our great, our wonderful